Are the best tokens (to a modest mind)[GJ]
Of Love, when seated on his loveliest throne,
A sincere woman's breast,—for over-warm
Or over-cold annihilates the charm.
XVI.
For over-warmth, if false, is worse than truth;
If true, 't is no great lease of its own fire;
For no one, save in very early youth,
Would like (I think) to trust all to desire,
Which is but a precarious bond, in sooth,