The histrionic truth is in the natural lie.

Because the man who wept the tears was, all the time,

Happy enough; because the other man, a-grime

With guilt was, at the least, as white as I and you;

Because the timid type of bashful maidhood, who

Starts at her own pure shade, already numbers seven

Born babes and, in a month, will turn their odd to even;

Because the saucy prince would prove, could you unfurl

Some yards of wrap, a meek and meritorious girl—

Precisely as you see success attained by each