Vii

Taking her hand he says:

What makes you beautiful? Answer, now, answer!-- Is it that dutiful Souls are all beautiful? Is it romance or Beauty of spirit, Which souls, that merit, Of heaven inherit?-- Have you an answer?

She, roguishly:

What makes you lovable? Answer, now, answer!-- Is it not provable That man is lovable Just because chance, or Nature, makes woman Love him?--Her human Part’s to illumine.-- Have you an answer?