35 “AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING—”
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—After Nicolas de Caen.
Man’s love hath many prompters, But a woman’s love hath none; And he may woo a nimble wit Or hair that shames the sun, Whilst she must pick of all one man And ever brood thereon,— And for no reason, And not rightly,— Save that the plan was foreordained (More old than Chalcedon, Or any tower of Tarshish Or of gleaming Babylon), That she must love unwillingly And love till life be done,— He for a season, And more lightly.