Well may you blaspheme at fortune!

I "threw Venus" (Ben, expound!)

Never did I need importune

Her, of all the Olympian round.

Blessings on my benefactress!

Cursings suit—for aught I know—

Those who twitched her by the back tress,

Tugged and thought to turn her—so!

Therefore, since no leg to stand on

Thus I 'm left with,—joy or grief