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!