Enough Rope/Somebody’s Song
Somebody’s Song
THIS is what I vow; He shall have my heart to keep;Sweetly will we stir and sleep, All the years, as now.Swift the measured sands may run;Love like this is never done;He and I are welded one: This is what I vow.
This is what I pray:Keep him by me tenderly;Keep him sweet in pride of me, Ever and a day;Keep me from the old distress;Let me, for our happiness,Be the one to love the less: This is what I pray.
This is what I know:Lovers’ oaths are thin as rain;Love’s a harbinger of pain— Would it were not so!Ever is my heart a-thirst,Ever is my love accurst;He is neither last nor first— This is what I know.