Love Stratagems

But these maneuverings to avoid
The touching of hands,
These shifts to keep eyes employed,
On objects more or less neutral,
As honor, for the time being, commands,
Will hardly prevent their downfall

Stronger medicines are needed
Already they find,
None of their stratagems have succeeded
Nor would have, no,
Not had their eyes been stricken blind,
Hands cut off at the elbow.