The two stand still

Under an oak.

"Look here!" resumes the youth.

"I never quite knew how I came to like

You—so much—whom I ought not court at all:

Nor how you had a leaning just to me

Who am assuredly not worth your pains.

For there must needs be plenty such as you

Somewhere about,—although I can't say where,—

Able and willing to teach all you know;