Suspense makes havoc with the mind”—(and muscles);
“Winged Hope takes flight” (which means that I must fly,
Default of funds, to Paris or to Brussels);
“I cannot wait! My own, my queen—Priscilla!
Write by return.” And now for a manilla!
“Miss Blank,” at “Blank.” Jemima, let it go;
And I, meanwhile, will idle with “Sir Walter.”
Stay, let me keep the first rough copy, though—
’Twill serve again. There’s but the name to alter,
And Love, that starves, must knock at every portal,