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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AD ASTRA: 19, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE
First Line: Love, at the highest, asks for no reward
Last Line: He swings his burning thurible of spice.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Sacrifices
First Line: Love, at the highest, asks for no reward
Last Line: He swings his burning thurible of spice.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Sacrifices
Love, at the highest, asks for no reward,
For perfect Love rejects all recompense;
So that of his own fires he may keep guard,
To fuller vantage makes he no pretence,—
His altars breathe of myrrh and frankincense,—
Fill'd with the joy of such high sacrifice,
He swings his burning thurible of spice.
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