What beauty was her portion at eighteen,

The age she married at. So, colorless

I stick to, and if featureless I add,

Your notion grows completer: for, although

I noticed that her nose was aquiline,

The whole effect amounts with me to—blank!

I never saw what I could less describe.

The eyes, for instance, unforgettable

Which ought to be, are out of mind as sight.

Yet is there not conceivably a face,