Here you will find the Poem And is love very strong where honour rules? of poet Lesbia Harford
And is love very strong where honour rules? Would the world ever speak of Lancelot's love Or Tristram's love had they put honour first? What would you think if Guinevere had knelt And begged for kisses and had begged in vain? Should she be constant had she been refused Or would she laugh and turn to love elsewhere? But Joseph is a hero nowadays And young Paolo, the Italian blood, Rather too rash and uncontrollable. Lovers who are not free should sigh and part? Lovers, you call them?and not free to love: They may be wives or husbands, businessmen, Saints even: they're not lovers. After all I'd rather be a lover than a saint.
