109. Wherein He Enlarges Upon Love's Courage and Cowardice -
WHEREIN HE ENLARGES UPON LOVE'S COURAGE AND COWARDICE
The long Love that is sovereign to my mind
And in my heart maintains his purple place,
With arrogant stride presses into my face,
Camps, flaunts his flag, parades there proud and blind:
She, that instructs to love and helps us find
Anguish therein, she would our heat abase
By reins of reason, shame and reverent grace,
And in our flesh the spurs of anger grind.
Whereupon Love to the heart's forest flies,
With sharp dismay quitting his enterprise,
And there in tears and panic he must hide.
What can the slave whose lord is terrified
Do more than stand with him in flight or field? —
How dear is death upon Love's battered shield!
The long Love that is sovereign to my mind
And in my heart maintains his purple place,
With arrogant stride presses into my face,
Camps, flaunts his flag, parades there proud and blind:
She, that instructs to love and helps us find
Anguish therein, she would our heat abase
By reins of reason, shame and reverent grace,
And in our flesh the spurs of anger grind.
Whereupon Love to the heart's forest flies,
With sharp dismay quitting his enterprise,
And there in tears and panic he must hide.
What can the slave whose lord is terrified
Do more than stand with him in flight or field? —
How dear is death upon Love's battered shield!
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