Names

I ask'd my fair, one happy day,

What I should call her in my lay,

By what sweet name from Rome or Greece,

[Neaera, Laura, Daphne, Chloris,

Carina, Lalage, or Doris,

Dorimene, or Lucrece?]

"Ah!" replied my gentle fair,

"Dear one, what are names but air?

Choose thou whatever suits the line;

Call me Sappho, call me Chloris,

Call me Lalage or Doris,

Only -- only -- call me

thine

!"