That friends are apt to feign rebuke

For love bestow'd e'en on a Duke;

That love's the dearest, sweetest thrall—

Almighty Love is all in all!

That worlds of gentlemen complete

Would die to languish at her feet;

That spite of fortune, or of birth,

"Love's—love's a heaven upon earth!"

Then a long string of rhymes run o'er

From Byron and 'dear Tommy Moore,'