Franklin P. Adams

Here you will find the Poem The Shepherd's Resolution of poet Franklin P. Adams

The Shepherd's Resolution

If she be not so to me, 
What care I how fair she be?

BY OUR OWN JEROME D. KERN, AUTHOR OF "YOU'RE HERE AND I'M HERE"


I don't care if a girl is fair 
If she doesn't seem beautiful to me, 
I won't waste away if she's fair as day, 
Or prettier than meadows in the month of May; 
As long as you are there for me to see, 
I don't care and you don't care 
How many others are beyond compare-- 
You're the only one I like to have around.

I won't mind if she's everything combined, 
If she doesn't seem wonderful to me, 
I won't fret if she's everybody's pet, 
Or considered by all as the one best bet; 
As long as you and I are only we, 
I don't care and you don't care 
How many others are beyond compare, 
You're the only one I like to have around.