                                      1816
                                      SONG
                               ("O BLUSH NOT SO")
                                 by John Keats
SONG

                      I.

        O blush not so! O blush not so!
          Or I shall think you knowing;
        And if you smile the blushing while,
          Then maidenheads are going.

                     II.

        There's a blush for want, and a blush for shan't,
          And a blush for having done it:
        There's a blush for thought and a blush for naught,
          And a blush for just begun it.

                    III.

        O sigh not so! O sigh not so!
          For it sounds of Eve's sweet pippin;
        By these loosen'd lips you have tasted the pips
          And fought in an amorous nipping.

                     IV.

        Will you play once more at nice-cut-core,
          For it only will last our youth out,
        And we have the prime of the kissing time,
          We have not one sweet tooth out.

                      V.

        There's a sigh for aye, and a sigh for nay,
          And a sigh for I can't bear it!
        O what can be done, shall we stay or run?
          O cut the sweet apple and share it!


                        THE END
