XVIII
You praised my speech to-day. You said I’d caught,
Wandering in many lands ’mong many men,
Colorful vowel richnesses learned then
Of many tongues. When first we met you thought
This gave me added charm, that thus I ought
Be not one woman—O! proud praise again!—
But many since I had their tongues and then
Their charm. Thus, thus you praised me who should not.
But now what think you I have learned of you?
The Tongue of Love! which I knew not before,
Nor can they learn it who o’er books do pore.
That taught you me. It sounds most sweetly too.
I learned it easily as children play
When first you said: “Yo, yo amo à te!”