XIII.

I tell the tale as it is told, nor dare To venture a solution: "_Davus sum!_"[658] And now I will proceed upon the pair. Sweet Adeline, amidst the gay World's hum, Was the Queen-Bee, the glass of all that's fair; Whose charms made all men speak, and women dumb. The last's a miracle, and such was reckoned, And since that time there has not been a second.