Here let each favorite unmolested blow

For one heart's homage, no tongue's banal praise,

Whether the rose appealingly bade "Gaze

Your fill on me, sultana who dethrone

The gaudy tulip!" or 't was "Me alone

Rather do homage to, who lily am,

No unabashed rose!" "Do I vainly cram

My cup with sweets, your jonquil?" "Why forget

Vernal endearments with the violet?"

So they contested yet concerted, all