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,