===FILIPINA===

You wonder why my feelings

 For you, my love, are sung,

 And never plainly phrased by

        The unaffected tongue.

        It is because my passions

 Are restless, rash, and strong---

       To native sense immodest

        Unless expressed in song.

 I have made speech and song,

       I have tried silence, too,

 But all interpret ill the thoughts

    My heart would speak to you.

 A motion of the hand, perhaps

   Half-wanton, half-withholding

 And such a smile, and such a glance,

         Would best be love's unfolding-

     Meaning that while my sentiments

          Have need of more than word,

    I dare not by a brazen move 

          Displace you, Lord.