Which words less free presumed not even to touch)

Of that fraternal love, whose heaven-lit lamp

From infancy, through manhood, to the last

Of threescore years, and to thy latest hour,

Burnt on with ever-strengthening light, enshrined

Within thy bosom.

"Wonderful" hath been

The love established between man and man,

"Passing the love of women;" and between

Man and his helpmate in fast wedlock joined