Men and the times were changed: "And I," said he,

"Will go and not return, since she is not for me.

"I'll go, for it would be a scurvy thing

To spoil her marriage, and besides, she cares

For that half-priest she married with the ring.

Small joy for me in seeing how she wears,

Or seeing what he takes and what she shares.

That beauty and those ways: she had such ways,

There in the daffodils in those old April days."

So with an impulse of good will he turned,