text:  Honour to Woman! To her it is given To garden the earth with the roses of Heaven! All blessed she linketh the Loves in their choir-- In the veil of the Graces her beauty concealing She tends on each altar that's hallow'd to Feeling And keeps ever-living the fire! From the bounds of Truth careering Man's strong spirit wildly sweeps With each hasty impulse veering Down to Passion's troubled deeps