Take offence? My Love forgot
He plays woman, I do not?
I—the woman? See my habit,
Ask my people! Anyhow,
Be we what we may, one vow
Binds us, male or female. Now,—
Stand, Sir! Read! "Quis separabit?"
Half a mile of pictured way
Past these palace-walls to-day
Traversed, this I came to say.