My Sweetheart's Like Venus. Holst

[ilace1972]

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My sweetheart's like Venus, she's lovely and light,

She's fairer than blackthorn, she's slim and she's white,

There's no one is like her, from far or from near,

It's truth I am telling for all men to hear.

Her form has the splendour of straight-growing trees,

Her hair like ripe corn that is stirr'd in the breeze,

Her eyebrows like gossamer that hangs by the door;

If only she'd love me, I'd ask nothing more.

[ilace1972]

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My sweetheart she loves like a shower of rain,

Now clouded, now weeping, now smiling again,

But she who loves many is left without one,

A faithful, true lover has one love alone.

[13Orcun]

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