Heart Songs

<h2><SPAN name="BLUE-EYED_BESS" id="BLUE-EYED_BESS"></SPAN>Blue Eyed Bess.</h2> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><span class="letra">B</span>UT let us argue for a space<br/></span> <span class="i2">Before we say that long good-bye,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Now heaven grant us store of grace,<br/></span> <span class="i2">We are so human, you and I.<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_138" id="page_138"></SPAN>{138}</span><br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Full well you know the old time way<br/></span> <span class="i2">Will easiest seem unto our feet,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Full well you know with yesterday<br/></span> <span class="i2">No fair to-morrow may compete.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Then some day, Bess, we will be old,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Think you our hearts content will stay<br/></span> <span class="i0">With bleak December, or, grown bold,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Will they not race back into May?<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Look not upon his acres wide,<br/></span> <span class="i2">But think how weary life would be,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Your body walking at his side,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Your soul back in the spring with me.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Why will you try to cheat poor love<br/></span> <span class="i2">Who only asks you for his own,<br/></span> <span class="i0">His blindness should compassion move,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Yet what compassion have you shown?<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Say, “Love, take all I have to give,<br/></span> <span class="i2">For nothing would I keep from thee,<br/></span> <span class="i0">We’ll walk together while we live,<br/></span> <span class="i2">And thou shalt make the path for me.”<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">The pretty blush is on your face,<br/></span> <span class="i2">We will not say that long good-bye,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Now heaven grant us store of grace,<br/></span> <span class="i2">We are so human, you and I.<br/></span></div> </div></div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_139" id="page_139"></SPAN>{139}</span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />