“If I knew you and you knew me”

by Nixon Waterman

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To know all is to forgive all

“If I knew you and you knew me,

If both of us could clearly see,

And with an inner sight divine,

The meaning of your heart and mine,

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I’m sure that we would differ less,

And clasp our hands in friendliness;

Our thoughts would pleasantly agree,

If I knew you and you knew me.

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If I knew you and you knew me,

As each one knows his own self, we

Could look each other in the face

And see therein a truer grace.

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Life has so many hidden woes,

So many thorns for every rose;

The “Why” of things our hearts would see.

If I knew you and you knew me.”

by Nixon Waterman: “Boy Wanted: A Book of Cheerful Counsel” (1 January 1919)