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Enough Rope/Somebody’s Song

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3989529Enough Rope1926Dorothy Parker

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.