To farthest-reaching fibre! Shall I boast

"My rough work—warfare—helped more? Loving, now—

That, by comparison, seems wiser, since

The loving fool was able to avow

"He could effect his purpose, just evince

Love's willingness,—once 'ware of what she lacked,

His loved one,—to go work for that, nor wince

"At self-expenditure: he neither hacked

Nor hewed, but when the lady of his field

Required defence because the sun attacked,