Bid me to live by John Alden Carpenter Lyrics

Bid me to live, and I will live
Thy Protestant to be:
Or bid me love, and I will give
A loving heart to thee

A heart as soft, a heart as kind
A heart as sound and free
As in the whole world thou canst find
That heart I'll give to thee

Bid me despair, and I'll despair
Under that cypress-tree:
Or bid me die, and I will dare
E'en Death, to die for thee