If Only You Knew It

I dare never speak up to you, For you to look down would not do, But always you are there each day, And always I wander this way. Our thoughts go by stealth to make search and renew it, But neither dares question nor give answer due it; If only you knew it! When constantly I could be found, You often in pride on me frowned; But now that I rarely appear, I see that you wait for me here! Two eyes, oh, two eyes made a snare and then drew it, And who would escape must beware, and eschew it! If only you knew it! Yes, if you but guessed, this might be A poem for you made by me, Whose billowy lines just now fly Up where you stand graceful and high! But look you, this knowledge, to no purpose grew it, I farther will go, Heaven guard, lest we rue it,- If only you knew it!