Sonnet 64 'Who Only Honor Can, Must Never Love'

Who only Honor can, must never Love! (And Yet, he Loves, all hidden and unspoke!) Who hath Heart sworn to Holy Spirit Dove, Can never break what must remain unbroke! Yet words a-tangle mesmerize him, still! They speak in echoes and tangential cries. They do not dare the sacred chalice to spill And yet he holds the image of her eyes As jewels to look on, filled with misty hope O! Would that I were he, that I might love, And in my loving, hold the higher rope But this, my friends, bears never thinking of, For thinking leads to yearning, that, to doing, When he that Loves must end his hope’s pursuing.