What Like Is A Lover?

What Like is a Lover?
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What like is a lover? A lover’s like
A straw in the spring wind blowing!
How far he will float, or where he’ll atrike
Is past all our wisest knowing
A straw in the wind, now here, now there,
And that’s like a lover, so, Sweet, be- ware!

What like is a lover? A light in the mist
Not well to be trusted, blindly-
Sometimes found, but as often missed-
Unkind, when he seems most kindly-
A scorching sun, and a chilling shade-
And that’s like a lover-Be warned, fair maid!

What like is lover? My sweet Sweetheart,
Ah, nothing like a lover
For guile und cunning and wicked art;
Forswear them all, and discover
The one, one only, you need not fear forever I love you
To trust dear!
-Madeline Bridges