Reason.
Justice once supreme
“With pleasure, but
Prithee, thy lips meanwhile keep shut.
Justic held undivided sway
O’er all the earth in Saturn’s day.5850
Saturn, whose son, as Ovid sings,
Cut off, as they were chitterlings,
His father’s cullions, and the sea
Consigned them to most cruelly,
And thence was fair Queen Venus born
(Unless old histories be forsworn).
If Justice came again on earth,
And mankind recognised her worth
Once more as in the age of gold,
Sweet brotherhood should then infold5860
All sons of men, ’neath Justice’ eye,
Dwelling together peaceably;
For Love once dead or fled away,
Ruthless would be stern Justice’ sway.
But if mankind were joined in one
Great brotherhood of love, then none
Would wrong his fellow, and vice sped
Were not all call for Justice dead?”
The Lover.
“Past doubt it then were needed nought.”
Reason.
“Well say’st thou, for in Love’s school taught5870
All men would live in peaceful rest,
Neither by kings nor lords oppressed.
