There 's Solomon's selected spouse:

Earth needs must hold such maids—choose them!"

Why, he was weeping! Surely gone

Sternness and strength: with eyes to ground

And voice a broken monotone—

"Only be as you were! Abound

In foibles, faults,—laugh, robed and crowned

"As Folly's veriest queen,—care I

One feather-fluff? Look pity, Love,

On prostrate me—your foot shall try