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!”
XIX
From Peking westward thirty li there stands,