Classic Poem

Ah, Lady, if these verses glowed
Warmer than chill appreciation —
If they should lengthen to an " Ode
On Fascination — "

If I should cast this cold restraint,
Nor dam this pen's o'ereager flowing —
If but your portrait I should paint
In colours glowing —

Assuming I should write such dope —
If, haply, you can but conceive it —
As Fahrenheit as Laurence Hope —
You'd not believe it.

YOU'D not; but, oh, Another would!
For, by and large and altogether,
Us potes must be misunderstood.


What lovely weather!