30.04.2007, 11:49
UNCONQUERABLE and inviolate
Is Love; servant and sov'reign of man's wit:
Though the light-wingèd fancy changeful flit,
She rules unswervingly her fair estate,
O'erbears mischance and error, envy and hate;
High intellect, ambition, passion, pride,
Endowments that capricious Fortune brings,
By her disfranchisements are set aside;
The mistress she alike of slaves and kings,
Empress of Earth's dominions, far and wide,
Eldest of potentates, and latest born.
Of all in Heaven above or Earth below,
No being so illustrious or forlorn,
That to Love's sceptre doth not gladly bow.
Is Love; servant and sov'reign of man's wit:
Though the light-wingèd fancy changeful flit,
She rules unswervingly her fair estate,
O'erbears mischance and error, envy and hate;
High intellect, ambition, passion, pride,
Endowments that capricious Fortune brings,
By her disfranchisements are set aside;
The mistress she alike of slaves and kings,
Empress of Earth's dominions, far and wide,
Eldest of potentates, and latest born.
Of all in Heaven above or Earth below,
No being so illustrious or forlorn,
That to Love's sceptre doth not gladly bow.