War and Love/Song for Her
SONG FOR HER
Why should love be dumb and goHidden in a shroud of lies?Why should lovers fear to tellWhat they see in women's eyes?What it is all lovers knowAnd the world should know as well.
Is a woman's heart of ice?Is a woman's sex of snow?I've a mistress and I seeWarm desire that moves me soI would give the whole world thriceTo express it worthily.
Every night that we can stealClose, as lovers do, we lie,And the wanton things we doAnd the amorous pangs we feelTold, would make the hard world cry,"Teach us how to love like you!"
Yet if you would love arightYou must love, like us, with allSense and spirit, flesh and breath:Then indeed it may befallThat you burn with our clear light—Light that only fades with death.