To steer between hate and love is society’s expectation.
Yet love and hate form the part of every nation.
If to love women too well is suspicious,
If to love God is considered superstitious,
If to love your nation makes you wrong when it is,
If to hate everything which opposes your loves—
If all these feelings and thoughts are wrong,
I will reject love and hate, if only to get along.
But should I find a woman who loves God and country,
Who lets me love her heart and all that I might see,
I will love her, and neither hate nor love society,
Nor God, nor any, reserving for her my loyalty.