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Show I BALLAD OF SINGLE BLESSED- (9 By Harry Cowell. , i ' IB My feet arc free of married shoes 1 P9H That needs must tread the narrow '. j jy9 I wander like the wind that woos I 111 Or one or twenty in a day. h Nor am I called upon to say i I ' !H Which better love I, Maude or Bess; j SI Nor if I'd give them both for May iW There's naught like single blessed- 'Twixt love and love 'tis hard to '9 Forego this fairy or that fay? jti 1 To win the one, the other lose ' ffl And why not both the darlings, pray? 3 My heart's each prompting I obey; , i 8j Now these, now those, the lips I if My life as lyric as my lay Ml There's naught like single blessed- i ' IS Which lips are sweeter, Flo's or Sue's 1 ' la ,TTlle tcmlcr-gravc, the loving-gay? ' j $m What lips are sweetest? By the j I ! M The lips that ever said me nay, 1 ! ' KB The lips that never said me yea. ! 'Bfl And since the sweet, as all confess, S9 Is not in victory but affray, , H There's naught like single blessed- ' H Prince, or of Europe or Cathay, ! j ' ' ;l The moral of my song you guess 1 j , ' :B For black and gold both turn to , L , H There's naught like single blessed- ; j 9 |