Jo And Joe

Your name is Jo, and so is mine,

     Jo and Joe;

What is the reason, what the sign?

     I would know.

Did it come through divine intent?

Or was it merely accident?

But all in all we’re well content,

     Sweetheart Jo.

The thought had never come to me,

     Long ago,

My sweetheart’s name and mine would be

     “Jo and Joe”.

Oh, no; all through my boyhood sweet,

I dreamed of names like Marguerite,

Or some great title obsolete,

     Never Jo.

But what of names when love h stirred

     One’s heart so?

I loved you ere your name I heard,

     Or could know.

And when I learned your heart was mine,

And kissed the first, your lips of wine,

The name you bore seemed most divine,

     Simply Jo!

Your name is Jo and so is mine,

     Happy so;

And what the reason, what the sign,

     Can we know?

And is it of divine intent,

Or is it merely accident?

But all in all, we’re well content,

     Jo and Joe.

March 4, ‘96

Cambridge Chronicle