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The Garden of Bright Waters

by E. Powys Mathers

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Tatars

Honey

Young man,

If you try to eat honey

On the blade of a knife,

You will cut yourself.

If you try to taste honey

On the kiss of a woman,

Taste with the lips only,

If not, young man,

You will bite your own heart.

Song of the Tatars.

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