I believe the foolish poets call this feeling love and swear it

is divine; however, they will say anything for the sake of an

ear-tickling jingle. And while it is true that scientists have any

number of plausible and interesting explanations for this same

feeling, I am sorry to say I have forgotten them.

I am compelled, then, to fall back upon those same unreliable,

irresponsible rhymesters, and to insist with them that a maid waiting

in the springtide for the man she loves is necessarily happy and very

rarely puzzles her head over the scientific reason for it.

[XXI]