Follow a shadow, it still flies you; <br />Seem to fly it, it will pursue: <br />So court a mistress, she denies you; <br />Let her alone, she will court you. <br />Say, are not women truly then <br />Styled but the shadows of us men? <br /> <br />At morn and even shades are longest, <br />At noon they are or short or none; <br />So men at weakest, they are strongest, <br />But grant us perfect, they're not known. <br />Say, are not women truly then <br />Styled but the shadows of us men?<br /><br />Benjamin Jonson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/that-women-are-but-men-s-shadows/
