Why was Cupid a boy, <br />And why a boy was he? <br />He should have been a girl, <br />For aught that I can see. <br /> <br />For he shoots with his bow, <br />And the girl shoots with her eye, <br />And they both are merry and glad, <br />And laugh when we do cry. <br /> <br />And to make Cupid a boy <br />Was the Cupid girl's mocking plan; <br />For a boy can't interpret the thing <br />Till he is become a man. <br /> <br />And then he's so pierc'd with cares, <br />And wounded with arrowy smarts, <br />That the whole business of his life <br />Is to pick out the heads of the darts. <br /> <br />'Twas the Greeks' love of war <br />Turn'd Love into a boy, <br />And woman into a statue of stone-- <br />And away fled every joy.<br /><br />William Blake<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/why-was-cupid-a-boy/
