61 AN ARCADIAN APOLOGIZES
Reading edition
—After Charles Garnier.
I pray you do not marvel, dear, that I, Whenever with fond hardihood I try To rhyme your praises, fail ingloriously. And marvel not that I in happier wise Have hymned Félise and lauded Sylvia’s eyes, And now may offer you no melodies. We poets are so made that when we be Unscathed by love none woos so well as we, But, wounded once, we worship silently.