Who is in love with loveliness, Need not shake with cold; For he may tear a star in two, And frock himself in gold.
Who holds her first within his heart, In certain favor goes; If his roof tumbles, he may find Harbor in a rose.
A love of beauty, Reese suggests, is its own form of protection. The speaker imagines that a person who truly loves loveliness will never be left out in the cold: they can split a star and wrap themselves in its gold, or if their house falls down, they can take shelter inside a rose.
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