“No, no; I’ll not step in—it’s hardly worth while.

I’ve heard that your glasses (I cannot tell where)

Are of a very poor make—p’r’aps you’d like a new pair.”

And will you believe it, new ones she did take,

In exchange for her own of the “fault-finding make”!

And now Betty’s happy’s a queen need to be,

For the beauty about her she’s able to see!


[THE TWO WAYS]

The ways diverged—I wondered which I’d take,