Is February's fourteenth day,
Illustrious Valentine.
Oh! then what breaking of young hearts!
What fits! what swoons! what cries!
And sobs of ev'ry kind and sort,
And sighs of ev'ry size!
No day makes such a stir as this:
(Not even the king's natal:)
Of all the fêtes, O Valentine!
Thy fête is the most fatal.