Resolving Doubts
SHE If to demands of others I agree, Then I will be another, but not me.
HE If their requiring voices shake your ear, How will your very spirit help but hear?
SHE It will, a bird, desert its builded nest, And in the virgin cloudbank only rest.
HE If they have wings like other birds of prey, How will it from those raptors keep away?
SHE It will seek out the ocean's whitest curl, And sink within it, and become a pearl.
HE But when they dive as glittering fishers dive, Will they not take your luster all alive?
SHE Venue shall make no difference to disguise, Nor shall my center open to their eyes.
HE But if by chance, by force, by God knows how, You all unguarded should some night allow Another there beside you in your bed, Body is body, and cannot lie dead.
SHE Body is body, but the heart stays true, And should that happen, I will think him you.