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If the wicked gods were willing / (Pray it never may be true!) / That a universal chilling / Should ensue / Of the sentiment of loving, -- / If they made a great undoing / Of the plan of turtle-doving, / Then farewell all poet-lore, / Evermore.
If there were no more of billing / There would be no more of cooing / And we all should be but owls -- / Lonely fowls / Blinking wonderfully wise, / With our great round eyes -- / Sitting singly in the gloaming and no longer two and two, / As unwilling to be wedded as unpracticed how to woo; / With regard to being mated, / Asking still with aggravated / Ungrammatical acerbity: "To who? To who?"