Why Was Cupid A Boy, And Why A Boy Was He? He Should Have Been A Girl, For Aught That I Can See. For He Shoots With His Bow, And The Girl Shoots With Her Eye; And They Both Are Merry And Glad, And Laugh When We Do Cry. Then To Make Cupid A Boy Was Surely A Woman'S Plan, For A Boy Never Learns So Much Till He Has Become A Man. And Then He's So Pierced With Cares, And Wounded With Arrowy Smarts, That The Whole Business Of His Life Is To Pick Out The Heads Of The Darts. William Blake.