Practical Guide to English Versification / With a Compendious Dictionary of Rhymes, an Examination / of Classical Measures, and Comments Upon Burlesque and / Comic Verse, Vers de Société, and Song-writing

by Tom Hood

When Souls mix 'tis a Happiness,

But not compleat 'till Bodies too combine,

And closely as our Minds together join.

But half of Heav'n the Souls in Glory taste }

'Till by Love in Heav'n at last }

Their Bodies too are plac'd." }

Or, on the contrary, the three first may rhyme, and the four last be in rhymes that follow one another; as,

"From Hate, Fear, Hope, Anger, and Envy free, }

And all the Passions else that be, }

In vain I boast of Liberty: }