HAT is a first love worth except to prepare for a second?
What does the second love bring? Only regret for the first.
John Hay, Poems.
N [Lady Charlotte Lindsay's] later days, when once complimented on looking very well, she replied, "I dare say it's true—the bloom of ugliness is past."
Lord Houghton, Monographs.
IN VIRTUTEM.
IRTUE we praise, yet practise not her good.
(Athenian-like) we act not what we know.
So many men do talk of Robin Hood
Who never yet shot arrow from his bow.