| Fuess and Stearns, comps. The Little Book of Society Verse. 1922. | | | | Dictum Sapienti | | By Charles Henry Webb |
| | | THAT ’t is well to be off with the old love | |
| Before one is on with the new | |
| Has somehow passed into a proverb— | |
| But I never have found it true. | |
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| No love can be quite like the old love, | 5 |
| Whate’er may be said for the new— | |
| And if you dismiss me, my darling, | |
| You may come to this thinking, too. | |
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| Were the proverb not wiser if mended, | |
| And the fickle and wavering told | 10 |
| To be sure they’re on with the new love | |
| Before they are off with the old? | | | | |
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