Dearth On Earth

We’d be graceful in today’s victory

To avoid a complicated history

We’d forbear lies and any bad story

To renounce malice and blustery

Let it never appear at any game

Let alone under your just name

Let it not be a cover for any fame

Or let it in under a different claim

The very weakness of the virtuous

It makes pure all things meritorious

Empty victories do the foul spirits attain

But, we’d continue that good refrain

For we know that love is a dearth

And that dearth love not death

Death finally would be a dearth

Dearth could be scarce on earth