Poem by Dorothy 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.

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