Josephine Foster The Siren's Admonition
Careful of your secret love!
You are bashful, and beating sighs
Are repeating over the burden
Of your disguise
Wherefore hide your fleeting pearls?
Divers deep never reach the shallows
Why keep them near to the shore?
No use burying there more!
"Sirens, I deliver you,
All I find, I found for you!
I delight in nearing truth
Call me blind--I see I saw
Right through!"
Barefoot in the sands of time
Who can scarcely believe
We're sinking beneath?
Don't hold it, behold it!
It's not yours or mine.
"Sirens, I deliver you
All I find, I found for you
I delight in nearing truth
Call me blind--I see I saw
Right through!"
