If ever is e’er and never is ne’er,
alas and alack, I’m filled with despair!
For every, then, unless I’m mistook,
is e’ry, I think…but how does that look?
If over is o’er then rover is ro’er,
while Do’er is somewhere on England’s far shore!
And what, then, of even, if it should be e’en?
I guess that our Stephen would have to be Ste’en!
David
