I wonder, though, if I can find the way.

Sometimes you muse upon your mistress—say

Her eyebrow, then you poetise upon it.

Maybe instead you celebrate her bonnet,

A striking symphony in green or grey.

And when it's done, for many and many a day,

With eager eye, you ever scan and con it,

Intent on seeing that it's quite correct,

And free from all suspicion of defect,

No inauspicious phrase, no halting line.