Where People Are Few

You're my breath, my life, My eyes, my sense, my hope - For your love, I strive Up and down the slope. Like the rose under the dew, Like in a hive the bee - How merry are you! Do not leave me, be with me. You're my friend, my wife, If I fall, you're my rope. My everything I wished in life - Without you, in darkness I grope. I dreamt not a dream without you, Ventured not without you in a sea. I'm lost at the thought of losing you. Do not leave me, be with me. In your love my heart is rife, Your parting it cannot cope - As long as in it is life, From envious eyes, let us elope To a world where people are few, Wandering together all day free. I trust, you won't, yet I plead you Do not leave me, be with me.