Oh, think not I am faithful to a vow! Faithless am I save to love's self alone Were you not lovely I would leave you now: After the feet of beauty fly my own Were you not still my hunger's rarest food And water ever to my wildest thirst I would desert you—think not but I would! And seek another as I sought you first
But you are mobile as the veering air And all your charms more changeful than the tide Wherefore to be inconstant is no care: I have but to continue at your side So wanton, light and false, my love, are you I am most faithless when I most am true