This has been said to others, I’ve no doubt;

But Reader, be it far from you or me

To press the delicate analogy.[[2]]

[2]. The allusion is to the tribunal set up by Colbert to enquire into the peculations of the Financiers.

Love the Jealous

W. H. Davies

I praised the daisies on my lawn,

And then my lady mowed them down.

My garden stones, improved by moss,