Should I her cruelty express,
And say she smiles at all the pains we feel;
Among such suppliants as implore
Pity, distributing her hate,
Inexorable as their fate,
Who will not guess the beauty I adore?
Song.] Stanley was less impar congressus with Voiture than with Ronsard, and this is well done. The stanza is well framed and is different from the French ('Je me tais et me sens brûler', Chanson LIV, Œuvres de Voiture, ed. Ubicini, Paris, 1855, ii. 336).
Drawn for Valentine by the L. D. S.
Though 'gainst me Love and Destiny conspire,