(But for your protests, they'd be overworked!)

I've seen your eyes with mischief filled and tears;

(But I could never pity you, My Dears!)

I've seen your breasts with agitation heave;

(Your hearts must be affected, I believe!)

I've seen your shapely forms pass in review

Before my lonely couch, in dreams of you,—

And what I haven't seen, some little bird

Has told me all about. Upon my word,

If what he says be true, what I have heard