And the Goddess of Love will keep her smiles, And the God of Cups his orgies; And there'll be riots in St. Giles, And weddings in St. George's; And mendicants will sup like Kings, Alas! they married in Twenty-Eight, My uncle will swathe his gouty limbs, My aunt, Miss Dobbs, will play longer hymns, My cousin in Parliament will prove How utterly ruined Trade is: My brother, at Eaton, will fall in love My patron will sate his pride from plate, And oh! I shall find how, day by day, But still I shall be what I have been, Sworn foe to Lady Reason, And seldom troubled with the spleen, And fond of talking treason; I shall buckle my skait, and leap my gate, And the woman I worshipped in Twenty-Eight HOW SHALL I WOO HER? L'on n'aime bien qu'une seule fois: c'est la premiere. I. How shall I woo her ?—I will stand II. How shall I woo her ?—I will gaze, In sad and silent trance, On those blue eyes, whose liquid rays And I will tell her, eyes more bright, Though bright her own may beam, Will fling a deeper spell to-night III. How shall I woo her?—I will try And swear by earth and sea and sky, My knee in other years, I could not speak for tears! IV. How shall I woo her?-I will bow Before the holy shrine; And pray the prayer, and vow the vow, And press her lips to mine; And I will tell her, when she parts From passion's thrilling kiss, That memory to many hearts Is dearer far than bliss. V. Away! away! the chords are mute, But souls that lose what I have lost, What have they left to win? STANZAS. The lady of his love, oh, she was changed, As by the sickness of the soul! Byron. Go thou, while in thy soul, and fill a throne Ford. I KNOW that it must be, Yea! thou art changed-all worshipped as thou art Mourned as thou shalt be! Sickness of the heart Hath done its work on thee! Thy dim eyes tell a tale, A piteous tale, of vigils; and the trace Changed love! but not alone! I am not what they think me; though my cheek Thus in my natural tone. |