If You Were By My Side - A poem by Colfax Burgoyne Harman

If You Were By My Side.

IF YOU were by my side, my dear,
I'd ask no other boon.
No grief, or sorrow know or fear,
For all would vanish soon,
If you were by my side.

If you were by my side, what care
Would enter in my thought,
Of what the world and people arew
Of good or evil wrought?
If you were by my side.

If you were by my side, the hours,
How swiftly would they flee!
While strolling thru the fields of fiowers,
Or sitting 'neath the tree,
With you close by my side.

If you were by my side, my heart
Would beat in quickest measure,
And in my breast emotions start
To thrill me thru with pleasure.
If you were by my side.

If you, my dear, were by my side.
How bright would home life be,
How sweetly would the moments glide,
With only you and me^___
And you close by my side!

How bright would be the whole of life,
Tho joy or sorrow come,
With you, my loving little wife,
Within our hallowed home,
Forever by my side!

^__Colfax Burgoyne Harman

Poems Of Sentiment
Colfax Burgoyne Harman
(Valley Falls, Kansas: Harman Publishing. 1905)
Page 235-236