"Enter, in lieu, the penitential pound:

Exchange the gauds of pomp for ashes, dust!

Leave each mollitious haunt of luxury!

The golden-garnished silken-couched alcove,

The many-columned terrace that so tempts

Feminine soul put foot forth, extend ear

To fluttering joy of lover's serenade,—

Leave these for cellular seclusion! mask

And dance no more, but fast and pray! avaunt—

Be burned, thy wicked townsman's sonnet-book!