But diverse: could we make her as the man,

Sweet love were slain, whose dearest bond is this

Not like to like, but like in difference:

Yet in the long years liker must they grow;

The man be more of woman, she of man;

He gain in sweetness and in moral height,

Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world;

She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care:

More as the double-natured Poet, each:

Till at the last she set herself to man,