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Love wooing Honour, Honour's love did win, / And had his pleasure all a summer's day. / Not understanding how the dooms begin, / Love wooing Honour, wooed her life away. / Then wandered he for full five years' unrest, / Until, one night, this Honour that had died / Came as he woke, in youth grown glorified, / And smiling like the saints whom God has blest.
But when he saw her in the dear night shine / Serene, with more than mortal light upon her, / The boy that careless was of things divine, / Small Love, turned penitent to worship Honour. / So Love can conquer Honour; when that's past, / Dead Honour risen outdoes Love at last.