Classic Poem

The Seas vnfit to saile on, if too calme:
As it is when it is too turbulent:
Then, the meane motion sets it so a walme
As doth the Sailors Eare, and Eye content:
So, neither too calme, nor too rough a Mind
Giues Vertue Way, whose waies are in the Mean:
In Loue, if Passion do not Reason bind
Their Action to the Clouds commends the scean:
Hatred, and Ire makes way, (and Lets put back)
For Iustice, and for Prowesse t'act their Parts:
Courage is cold, and Iustice is but slack
If Ire and Hatred did but stir their Harts:
Then sith Loues passion, may with Reason hold,
Good reason we should loue as Reason would.