This day, beyond all contradiction,

This day is all thine own, Queen Fiction!

And thou art building castles boundless

Of groundless joys, and griefs as groundless;

Assuring beauties that the border

Of their new dress is out of order;

And schoolboys that their shoes want tying;

And babies that their dolls are dying.

Lend me, lend me, some disguise;

I will tell prodigious lies: