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First Line: Humble is love, for he is honor's child
Last Line: Love should be humble -- his reward is meet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


HUMBLE is Love, for he is Honor's child:
He knows the worth of her he does adore,
And that high reckoning humbles him the more:
By her dear sweetness from his pain beguiled,
He would be proud because her look is mild;
But all the while he scans the oft-told score,
And his imperfectness must still deplore,
Abashed no less because on him she smiled.

To be allowed to love is Love's dear prize:
To lay his homage at Her royal feet --
To enter thus the true heart's paradise,
The name of names forever to repeat,
And read his sentence in her answering eyes --
Love should be humble -- his reward is meet.





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