Poems (Curwen)/Yes or No

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Yes or No.
"To be, or not to be," she said,  As she scanned the dainty billet-doux,"Men are so fickle, and I have read  That love is rarely if ever true; So I'm afraid to answer 'Yes,'  And yet how can I answer 'No!' Was ever maid in such distress?  I wish I'd never had a beau.
"If I say 'Yes,' my freedom's gone,  If I say 'No,' I'll lose my lover; And Pa says all romance is gone  Before the honeymoon is over. Was ever maid in such distress?  I really do not want to marry; I'm certain that I shan't say 'Yes,'  But how can I say 'No' to Harry?"
But, when the trysting hour drew near,  She quite forgot what Pa had said; She only knew she loved him dear,  And maids were made for men to wed; So when he asked her to be his bride,  She couldn't say "No," and wouldn't say "Yes," So she turned her blushing face aside,  And shyly, sweetly, whispered "Guess?"
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