Was toppling loss to-morrow, lay at last

—Knowledge, the golden?—lacquered ignorance!

As gain—mistrust it! Not as means to gain:

Lacquer we learn by: ...

The prize is in the process: knowledge means

Ever-renewed assurance by defeat

That victory is somehow still to reach,

But love is victory, the prize itself:

Love—trust to! Be rewarded for the trust

In trust's mere act."A