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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!