Tell me, lovely, loving pair! <br />Why so kind, and so severe? <br />Why so careless of our care, <br />Only to yourselves so dear? <br /> <br />By this cunning change of hearts, <br />You the power of love control; <br />While the boy's eluded darts <br />Can arrive at neither soul. <br /> <br />For in vain to either breast <br />Still beguiled love does come, <br />Where he finds a foreign guest, <br />Neither of your hearts at home. <br /> <br />Debtors thus with like design, <br />When they never mean to pay, <br />That they may the law decline, <br />To some friend make all away. <br /> <br />Not the silver doves that fly, <br />Yoked in Cytherea's car; <br />Not the wings that lift so high, <br />And convey her son so far; <br /> <br />Are so lovely, sweet, and fair, <br />Or do more ennoble love; <br />Are so choicely matched a pair, <br />Or with more consent do move.<br /><br />Edmund Waller<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/on-the-friendship-betwixt-two-ladies/
