The Change
Love in her sunny eyes does basking play
Love walks the pleasant mazes of her hair
Love does on both her lips for ever stray
And sows and reaps a thousand kisses there
In all her outward parts Love's always seen
But, oh, he never went within
Within Love's foes, his greatest foes abide
Malice, Inconstancy, and Pride
So the earths face, trees, herbs, and flowers do dress
With other beauties numberless
But at the center, darkness is, and hell
There wicked spirits, and there the damned dwell
With me alas, quite contrary it fares
Darkness and death lies in my weeping eyes
Despair and paleness in my face appears
And grief, and fear, Love's greatest enemies
But, like the Persian-tyrant
Love within Keeps his proud Court, and ne'er is seen
Oh take my heart, and by that means you'll prove
Within too stor'd enough of Love
Give me but yours, I'll by that change so thrive
That Love in all my parts shall live
So powerful is this change, it render can
My outside woman, and your inside man
Love walks the pleasant mazes of her hair
Love does on both her lips for ever stray
And sows and reaps a thousand kisses there
In all her outward parts Love's always seen
But, oh, he never went within
Within Love's foes, his greatest foes abide
Malice, Inconstancy, and Pride
So the earths face, trees, herbs, and flowers do dress
With other beauties numberless
But at the center, darkness is, and hell
There wicked spirits, and there the damned dwell
With me alas, quite contrary it fares
Darkness and death lies in my weeping eyes
Despair and paleness in my face appears
And grief, and fear, Love's greatest enemies
But, like the Persian-tyrant
Love within Keeps his proud Court, and ne'er is seen
Oh take my heart, and by that means you'll prove
Within too stor'd enough of Love
Give me but yours, I'll by that change so thrive
That Love in all my parts shall live
So powerful is this change, it render can
My outside woman, and your inside man
Credits
Writer(s): Abraham Cowley (1618-1667), Joris Holtackers
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