Your pair of eyes are sapphires

Text by Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)
Translated into English by Joseph Massaad 

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Your pair of eyes are sapphires,
So lovely and so sweet.
Oh, three times happy is the man,
Whom they, with love, do great.

That heart of yours is a diamond,
That sheds a noble light.
Oh, three times happy is the man,
For whom is glows so bright.

Your scarlet lips are rubies,
One finds fairer no where.
Oh, three times happy is the man,
For whom, with love, they wisper.

Oh! Could I know that lucky man,
Or could I, unattended,
In a green forest meet with him,
His bliss would soon be ended!