36. No Second Troy
| WHY should I blame her that she filled my days | |
| With misery, or that she would of late | |
| Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways, | |
| Or hurled the little streets upon the great, | |
| Had they but courage equal to desire? | 5 |
| What could have made her peaceful with a mind | |
| That nobleness made simple as a fire, | |
| With beauty like a tightened bow, a kind | |
| That is not natural in an age like this, | |
| Being high and solitary and most stern? | 10 |
| Why, what could she have done being what she is? | |
| Was there another Troy for her to burn? |
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