He heard her, while he pressed his suit,

Sigh, "Bored to desperation!"—there's

A Rift within that Lute.

What need more trivial ills to quote,

The freshly-furnished house that shines,

The coxcomb's fashionable coat,

Both brushed and polished "to the nines,"

Both yielding to some fatal flaw;

A crack; a fiend who plays the flute;

Both, both examples of the law