If I had been a rich man’s girl,

With my tawny hair, and this wanton art

Of lifting my eyes in the evening whirl

And looking into another’s heart;

Had love been mine at birth, and friends

Caressing and guarding me night and day,

With doctors to watch my finger-ends,

And a parson to teach me how to pray;

If I had been reared as others have,—

With but a tithe of these looks, which came