Just Folks

Send Her a Valentine

          Send her a valentine to say
          You love her in the same old way.
          Just drop the long familiar ways
          And live again the old-time days
          When love was new and youth was bright
          And all was laughter and delight,
          And treat her as you would if she
          Were still the girl that used to be.

          Pretend that all the years have passed
          Without one cold and wintry blast;
          That you are coming still to woo
          Your sweetheart as you used to do;
          Forget that you have walked along
          The paths of life where right and wrong
          And joy and grief in battle are,
          And play the heart without a scar.

          Be what you were when youth was fine
          And send to her a valentine;
          Forget the burdens and the woe
          That have been given you to know
          And to the wife, so fond and true,
          The pledges of the past renew
          'Twill cure her life of every ill
          To find that you're her sweetheart still.