There’s many a one shall find out all heartache
In finding that it’s young and mild and low:
‘There is one thing that all we women know,
Although we never heard of it at school—
That we must labour to be beautiful.’
I said: ‘It’s certain there is no fine thing
Since Adam’s fall but needs much labouring.
There have been lovers who thought love should be
So much compounded of high courtesy
That they would sigh and quote with learned looks