Fair is My Love and Cruel as She's Fair. By Daniel, Samuel. Fair is my love, and cruel as she's fair; Her brow-shades frown, although her eyes are sunny. Her smiles are lightning, though her pride despair, And her disdains are gall, her favours honey: A modest maid, decked with a blush of honour, Whose feet do tread green paths of youth and love; The wonder of all eyes that look upon her, - Sacred on earth, designed a saint above. Chastity and Beauty, which were deadly foes, Live reconciled friends within her brow; And had she Pity to conjoin with those, Then who had heard the plaints I utter now? For had she not been fair, and thus unkind, My Muse had slept, and none had known my mind.