Copper Sun (Cullen)/If Love be Staunch
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If Love Be Staunch
If love be staunch, call mountains brittle;
Love is a thing will live
So long, my dear,—oh, just the little
While water stays in a sieve.
Love is a thing will live
So long, my dear,—oh, just the little
While water stays in a sieve.
Yea, love is deathless as the day
Whose death the stars reveal;
And love is loyal all the way,
If treachery be leal.
Whose death the stars reveal;
And love is loyal all the way,
If treachery be leal.
Beyond the shadow of a doubt,
No thing is sweet as love,
But, oh, the bitterness spewed out
Of the heart at the end thereof!
No thing is sweet as love,
But, oh, the bitterness spewed out
Of the heart at the end thereof!
Beyond all cavil or complaint,
Love’s ways are double-dyed;
Beneath the surplice of a saint
The cloven hooves are spied.
Love’s ways are double-dyed;
Beneath the surplice of a saint
The cloven hooves are spied.
Whom yesterday love rhymed his sun
Today he names a star;
When the course of another day is run,
What will he say you are?
Today he names a star;
When the course of another day is run,
What will he say you are?