Beppo 22
    
XXII.

She was not old, nor young, nor at the years
Which certain people call a "certain age,"
Which yet the most uncertain age appears,
Because I never heard, nor could engage
A person yet by prayers, or bribes, or tears,
To name, define by speech, or write on page,
The period meant precisely by that word, ?
Which surely is exceedingly absurd.

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824) ByronLongBeppo