I tell the tale as it is told, nor dare
To venture a solution: “Davus sum!”
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.