Classic Poem

I WANDERED out awhile agone,
And went I knew not whither;
But there do beauties, many a one,
Resort, and meet together;
And Cupid's power will there be shown,
If ever you come thither.

For, like two suns, two beauties bright,
I shining saw together;
And, tempted by their double light,
My eyes I fixed on either:
Till both at once so thralled my sight,
I loved and knew not whether.

Such equal sweetness Venus gave,
That I preferred not either;
And when for love I thought to crave,
I knew not well of whether.
For one while this I wished to have,
And then I that had liefer.

A lover of the curioust eye
Might have been pleased in either;
And so, I must contess, night I,
Had they not been together.
Now, both must love, or both deny;
In one enjoy I neither.

But yet at last I 'scaped the smart
I feared at coming hither;
For, seeing my divided heart,
I choosing, knew not whether,
Love angry grew, and did depart;
And now I care for neither.