Temperate I am—yet never had a temper;
Modest I am—yet with some slight assurance;
Changeable too—yet somehow “Idem semper:”
Patient—but not enamoured of endurance;
Cheerful—but, sometimes, rather apt to whimper:
Mild—but at times a sort of “Hercules furens:”
So that I almost think that the same skin
For one without—has two or three within.