Alas, not one of you quite fills the bill—

A life-size model for my Lady Jill.

Pardon, then, Magda, Gladys, Nancy, Florence,

Doris, Patricia, Mollie, Celandine,

Nor hold your erstwhile suitor in abhorrence

Because, from one, he takes eyes subtly green;

From other, hands a Sargent or a Lawrence

Had envied for his canvas; here, the sheen

Of gold hair, auburn-shot, in whose abundance,

What time Jill dreamed, young Cupids watched the sun dance;