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.