But of Love I can’t foretoken:

Ask some older sage than I!”

Edmund Clarence Stedman.

DICTUM SAPIENTI

THAT ’tis well to be off with the old love

Before one is on with the new

Has somehow passed into a proverb,—

But I never have found it true.

No love can be quite like the old love,

Whate’er may be said for the new—