This weighty subject claims my care,

To answer now I must forbear.

Could you admire a homely face,

Devoid of beauty, charms, or grace?

Would you not blush, should friends deride

The rustic manners of your bride?

Say, would you build a cottage near

Some pleasant grove, where we might hear

The blithesome wild birds' pleasing song,

From morn till eve, all summer long?