True recreation in this joyless round?

The sea's bright changefulness as soon were found

In Pedlington's rain-puddles.

"The cliques and coteries know not how to mix.

A barrier more impassable than Styx

Is Philistine stupidity.

Were mutual amusement meeting's aim,

Mind must move maidenhood inert and tame,

Melt masculine rigidity.

"Concourse, not intercourse, is what you see: