• I say it under the rose—
      Oh, thanks!—yes, under the laurel,
    We part lovers, not foes;
      We are not going to quarrel.

    We have too long been friends
      On foot and in gilded coaches,
    Now that the whole thing ends,
      To spoil our kiss with reproaches.

    I leave you; my soul is wrung;
      I pause, look back from the portal—...