Should Hagar weep? May slighted woman turn,

And as a vine the oak hath shaken off,

Bend lightly to her tendencies again?

Oh no! by all her loveliness, by all

That makes life poetry and beauty, no!

Make her a slave; steal from her rosy cheek

By needless jealousies; let the last star

Leave her a watcher by your couch of pain;

Wrong her by petulance, suspicion, all

That makes her cup a bitterness—yet give