This is an English folk song that I felt had to be here, enjoy. <br /> <br />The water is wide, I cannot get over <br />Neither have I wings to fly <br />Give me a boat that can carry two <br />And both shall row, my love and I <br /> <br />A ship there is and she sails the sea <br />She's loaded deep as deep can be <br />But not so deep as the love I'm in <br />I know not if I sink or swim <br /> <br />I leaned my back against an oak <br />Thinking it was a trusty tree <br />But first it bent and then it broke <br />So did my love prove false to me <br /> <br />I reached my finger into some soft bush <br />Thinking the fairest flower to find <br />I pricked my finger to the bone <br />And left the fairest flower behind <br /> <br />Oh love be handsome and love be kind <br />Bright as a flower when first it is new <br />But love grows old and waxes cold <br />And fades away like the morning dew <br /> <br />Must I go bound while you go free <br />Must I love a girl who doesn't love me <br />Must I be born with so little art <br />As to love a girl who'll break my heart <br /> <br />When cockle shells turn silver bells <br />Then will my love come back to me <br />When roses bloom in winter's gloom <br />Then will my love return to me<br /><br />Raul Luna<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-water-is-wide/
