By Titian, Bassano, and brave Tintoret—

Though as pictures delightful, I fancy that they,

E'en as pictures, can't rival my gentle Saint May.

She's almost too young and too plump for a saint,

With sweet little dimples that Millais might paint;

She wears no ascetic or mortified mien,

No wimple of yellow or vestment of green—

But her soft golden hair throws a sunshiny ray,

Like a nimbus, around the fair face of Saint May!

What surquayne or partlet could look better than