An' that nobbut partly, net awl:

For love like one's soul is immortal,

If its love, it wont vanish away—

Its birth wor inside o' th' breet portal

Ov Eden, it knows noa decay.

Sin' then it has lived on, while th' ages

Has rowled on wi' uniform flow,

As young, an as fresh, as when sages

Towd ther sweethearts it cent'ries ago—

An' chaps 'll be tellin th' story,