IV.
If, when thou appear’st to be within, Thou let’st not men ask and ask again; And when thou answer’st, if it be To what was ask’d thee, properly,— Know this, Thou lov’st amiss; And to love true, Thou must begin again, and love anew.
Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin: Comprising the Celebrated Political and Satirical Poems, of the Rt. Hons. G. Canning, John Hookham Frere, W. Pitt, the Marquis Wellesley, G. Ellis, W. Gifford, the Earl of Carlisle, and Others.
If, when thou appear’st to be within, Thou let’st not men ask and ask again; And when thou answer’st, if it be To what was ask’d thee, properly,— Know this, Thou lov’st amiss; And to love true, Thou must begin again, and love anew.