What did the other do? You be judge!

Look at us, Edith! Here are we both!

Give him his six whole years: I grudge

None of the life with you, nay, loathe

Myself that I grudged his start in advance

Of me who could overtake and pass.

But, as if he loved you! No, not he,

Nor any one else in the world, 'tis plain:

Who ever heard that another, free

As I, young, prosperous, sound and sane,