Love, or is it pretense? Drunken wind, or is it scent? You want paper, or the pen? Will you wound, or will you mend? Strike a pose, or paint with hue? Sing opera, or sketch it true? Teresa, or Mussolini? Emperor, or beggar's plea?
Marbles, or the icy drink? You love both, I know and think. Sweetmeat, or the curd so white? Oh! For you, just one's all right!
Will you court, or will you love? Hold me close, or draw above?
I won't say I love in lies. You can't say you care with sighs.