A Possibility + 

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?” + 