text:  Here they are:-- "My sweetest hour my happiest day Was in the happy month of May! The happy dreams that round me lay On that delicious morn of May!" "I saw thee! loved thee! If my love A tribute unrejected be The happiest day of May shall prove The happiest of my life to me!" It is quite evident that if such an open declaration had been made in plain prose Daphne would have been angry; but in verse 'twas nothing but a poetical license