Why was Cupid a boy, And why a boy was he ? He should have been a girl, For aught that I can see. For he shoots with his bow, And a girl shoots with her eye; And they both are merry and glad And laugh when we do cry. And to make Cupid a boy Was surely a woman's plan, For a boy never learns to mock Till he has become a man : And then he is so pierced through And wounded with arrowy smarts, That the whole business of his life Is to pick out the heads of the darts.
Three Contemporary Madrigals
Song Cycle by Cecil S. Effinger (b. 1914)
3. Why was Cupid a boy?  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Authorship:
- by William Blake (1757 - 1827), "Cupid"
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