verses to clarinda

　　sent with a pair of wine-glasses.

　　fair empress of the poet's soul,

　　and queen of poetesses;

　　clarinda, take this little boon,

　　this humble pair of glasses:

　　and fill them up with generous juice,

　　as generous as your mind;

　　and pledge them to the generous toast,

　　“the whole of human kind!”

　　“to those who love us!” second fill;

　　but not to those whom we love;

　　lest we love those who love not us—

　　a third—“to thee and me, love!”