"How Romantic"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    I will rub your belly
    and make your monster go away.

I will take you above Tintern Abbey
    in an effort to make you happy
    at the sight of the fading day.

We will listen to nightingales,
    and read pictures on urns,
and will act like around us
    is how the world turns-

because it does.