And if my heart be scarred and burned
The safer, I, for all I learned
The calmer, I, to see it true
That ways of love are never new
The love that sets you daft and dazed
Is every love that ever blazed
The happier, I, to fathom this
A kiss is every other kiss
The reckless vow, the lovely name
When Helen walked, were spoke the same
The weighted breast, the grinding woe
When Phaon fled, were ever so
Oh, it is sure as it is sad
That any lad is every lad
And what's a girl, to dare implore
Her dear be hers forevermore?
Though he be tried and he be bold
And swearing death should he be cold
He'll run the path the others went
But you, my sweet, are different