Love Will Find Out The Way


1. Over the mountains 
  And over the waves,
Under the fountains 
  And under the graves; 
Under floods that are deepest,
  Which Neptune obey, 
Over rocks that are steepest, 
  Love will find out the way. 
 
2. When there is no place 
  For the glow-worm to lie,
When there is no space 
  For receipt of a fly; 
When the midge dares not venture 
  Lest herself fast she lay, 
If Love come, he will enter
  And will find out the way. 
 
3. You may esteem him 
  A child for his might; 
Or you may deem him 
  A coward for his flight;
But if she whom Love doth honour 
  Be conceal’d from the day — 
Set a thousand guards upon her, 
  Love will find out the way. 
 
4. Some think to lose him
  By having him confined; 
And some do suppose him, 
  Poor heart! to be blind; 
But if ne’er so close ye wall him, 
  Do the best that ye may,
Blind Love, if so ye call him, 
  He will find out his way. 
 
5. You may train the eagle 
  To stoop to your fist; 
Or you may inveigle
  The Phoenix of the east; 
The lioness, you may move her 
  To give over her prey; 
But you’ll ne’er stop a lover — 
  He will find out the way.


This song appears in William Chappell’s “Popular Music of the Olden Time” from 1859.  He notes the song was still being sung in the summer of 1855. The tune was in Playford’s Musick’s “Recreation on the Lyra Viol” (1652). The ballad was so popular in 1661 that a play was named for the song.