Verbal votaries of Venus
Are an arbitrary genus,
And as arrogant as Howells
In their dealings with the vowels.
Love, move, rove, linked in a sonnet,
Pass for rhymes; the best have done it!)
Then again there is Magenta!
Surely science never sent a
Handier rhyme to—well, polenta,
Or (for Cockney Muses) Mentor!