Dorothy Parker - Incurable lyrics

And if my heart be scarred and burned The safer, I, for all I learned The calmer, I, to see it true That ways of love are never new The love that sets you daft and dazed Is every love that ever blazed The happier, I, to fathom this A kiss is every other kiss The reckless vow, the lovely name When Helen walked, were spoke the same The weighted breast, the grinding woe When Phaon fled, were ever so Oh, it is sure as it is sad That any lad is every lad And what's a girl, to dare implore Her dear be hers forevermore? Though he be tried and he be bold And swearing d**h should he be cold He'll run the path the others went But you, my sweet, are different