1. If he who pledged fulfills his word with haste
Unlike another who but said he soon would act

2. O eminent scholar and guide of later days
Whose dwelling no abode can equal in its grace

3. Accept this daughter of the thoughts I have employed
Who now, I swear, is like a doe with darkling eyes

4. And rest while still the chatter rises from the boughs
Of moist young branches in most perfect paradise