If this should fail, then tempora mutantur;
Style’s out of date, and love, as a profession,
Acquires no aid from beauty of expression.
“The men who think as I, I fear, are few”
(Cynics would say ’twere well if they were fewer);
“I am not what I seem”—(indeed, ’tis true;
Though, as a sentiment, it might be newer);
“Mine is a soul whose deeper feelings lie
More deep than words”—(as these exemplify).
“I will not say when first your beauty’s sun