Surely I “ought to have known”—

“Sir Cupid”—and—“Three are too many,”

She’d walk with me, if alone!

So, lost in the maze of the roses,

Forever she flitted before;

And I said, with a sigh, to Sir Cupid:

“I’ll follow the truant no more!”

The next time I drew near to the roses,

I listened; I heard a faint stir,

And when I looked into the garden