If you were a perfect philistine

Татьяна Ивановна Кузнецова
If you were a perfect philistine,
I should not protect you from yourself.
But you aren’t. You are a bit of elf.
That’s it if you know what I mean.
 
Otherwise it would be rather odd
Not to see an inch beyond my nose.
That another river overflows
I’d be twice a fool if I forgot