3.—(Swinburne, who let it get cold)

As the sin that was sweet in the sinning

Is foul in the ending thereof,

As the heat of the summer's beginning

Is past in the winter of love:

O purity, painful and pleading!

O coldness, ineffably gray!

Oh, hear us, our handmaid unheeding,

And take it away!

4.—(Cowper, who thoroughly enjoyed it)