I tell the tale as it is told, nor dare

To venture a solution: "Davus sum!"[658]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.