Frances Anne Kemble - A Rejected Lover To His Mistress (I) lyrics

Knowest thou not that of all human gifts God chooses love?—alone, that may be laid Upon His altar, who hath all things made, And find acceptance:—to the hand that lifts That precious price, the gates of heaven give way, And wilt thou dare lightly to cast away My soul's best offering, thou cruel child! With wanton wealth of youth and beauty wild. Who shall pray for thee, that there be not laid On thee, in days to come, the bitter load, Of love unrecognised and unrepaid? Ah! who shall comfort thee, for all thy scorn, When thou shalt wander, weeping and forlorn, Remembering me, along life's flinty road?