Chapter 37 No.37

Lovely, and gentle, and distressed-

These charms might tame the fiercest breast;

Harpers have sung, and poets told,

That he, in fury uncontrolled,

The shaggy monarch of the wood,

Before a virgin, fair and good,

Hath pacified his savage mood.

But passions in the human frame

Oft put the lion's rage to shame:

And jealousy, b