Three times spotted, thrice the pollen;

While the leaves and parts that witness

Old proportions and their fitness,

Here remain unchanged, unmoved now;

Call this pampered thing improved now!

Suppose there 's a king of the flowers

And a girl-show held in his bowers—-

"Look ye, buds, this growth of ours,"

Says he, "Zanze from the Brenta,

I have made her gorge polenta