Oh, sir, you are the friend, the friend of both,
A famous scholar; with authority
And eloquence to press your friendship home.
Surely in words such as you have at will
You can persuade them, for all sakes—and yet
No matter mine perhaps—but, as you say,
Their fathers’, Antioch’s, their own—
Cipr. Alas!
I doubt you know not in your maiden calm
How fast all love and logic such as that