As the heat of the summer’s beginning
Is past in the winter of love:
O purity, painful and pleading!
O coldness, ineffably gray!
O hear us, our hand-maid unheeding,
And take it away!
Browning, who treated it allegorically.
Tut! bah! We take as another case—
Pass the bills on the pills on the window-sill; notice the capsule.
(A sick man’s fancy, no doubt, but I place