Her reasoning is full of tricks And butterfly suggestions, I know no point to which she sticks; She begs the simplest questions, And, when her premises are strong She always draws her inference wrong.
Note 1. See FitzGerald: Omar Khayyám. Rubaiyat, lxxiii. Ah Love! could Thou and I with Fate conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would we not shatter it to bitsand then Re-mould it nearer to the Hearts Desire! [back]