Classic Poem

Zu der Lauheit und der Flauheit

In your tepid soul and vapid,
 There's no strength to stand the shocks
Of my wild love, with its rapid
 Force that breaks a path through rocks.

You, you want Love's broad, safe high-roads,
 And a husband's arm through life;
Scorning all the glades and by-roads,—
 Just a prim and pregnant wife.