Matthew 16.25

When Love heard of one so lovely 'twere as herself made flesh

& the Word kenned a Makar sooth skanyal to its Mesh

Both were so fashed as to fashion a homunculus crude 

To furnish Psyche a Rood & the World's wound refresh

Envoi- 

Prince! Venus, in us, breeds but Work
Zoe so trod on in Ruthwell's kirk...