First, be it granted all was duly said
By the fond youth to the believing maid;
Let us suppose with many a sigh there came
The declaration of the deathless flame;—
And so her answer—“She was happy then,
Blest in herself, and did not think of men;
And, with such comforts in her present state, 80
A wish to change it was to tempt her fate;
That she would not; but yet she would confess }