| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909. | | | | Harmony in Unlikeness | | By Charles Lamb (1775–1834) |
| | | BY Enfield lanes, and Winchmore’s verdant hill, | |
| Two lovely damsels cheer my lonely walk: | |
| The fair Maria, as a vestal, still; | |
| And Emma brown, exuberant in talk. | |
| With soft and lady speech the first applies | 5 |
| The mild correctives that to grace belong | |
| To her redundant friend, who her defies | |
| With jest, and mad discourse, and bursts of song. | |
| O differing Pair, yet sweetly thus agreeing, | |
| What music from your happy discord rises, | 10 |
| While your companion hearing each, and seeing, | |
| Nor this, nor that, but both together, prizes; | |
| This lesson teaching, which our souls may strike, | |
| That harmonies may be in things unlike! | | | | |
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