"Wonder it is to see in diverse minds How diversely love doth his pageants play." ERE thou begin to love, choose well the school Wherein to graduate, the fitting rule. For wilt thou love with traitors who forswore Themselves at Argos and at Elsinore,— Set sword and serpent and the funeral pyre For milestones on the road of thy desire? Wilt thou infect thy passionate lips and breath, And be the cup that holds thy Juliet's death? Condemn to rosemary and asphodel A Sigismonde or gentle Isabelle? Wilt thou, with Paris, set a world at strife, Or give, with Perseus and Alcestis, life?— With Orpheus half redeem Eurydice Or be thy Psyche's immortality? |