And as for the novels of Miss Lefanu,
She dog's-eared them till the whole twenty looked blue;
And studied 'The Monk' in the attic.
When her sire introduced our Apollo, he found
The maiden in torrents of sympathy drowned—
"Floods of tears" is too trite and too common:
Her eyes were quite swelled—her lips pouting and pale;
For she just had been reading that heartbreaking tale,
"Annabelle, or the Sufferings of Woman."
Apollo, I'll swear, had more courage than I,