TO “LYDIA LANGUISH”
“Il me faut des emotions.”—Blanche Amory
YOU ask me, Lydia, “whether I,
If you refuse my suit, shall die,”
(Now pray don’t let this hurt you!)
Although the time be out of joint,
I should not think a bodkin’s point
The sole resource of virtue;
Nor shall I, though your mood endure,
Attempt a final Water-cure