Where is Love?
Oh! rather, name the spot
Where Love is not
Below, above,
In calm and storm, in wild, and city mart –
Wherever beats a human heart,
There is Love!
Even where Hate’s red woof is seen
Love weaves a golden thread between.
In the battle’s bleeding mass?
He lurks beneath the wet cuirass.
Breathed with the earliest breath,
He dies not, even in death,
In the grave?
The ring, he gave-
The lock of hair-
Love-is there!
No heart so wither’d, lost, and old,
Nothing so dull, and dead, find cold,
But Love compels in his boundless fold.
He floats on the waves as they lean to the light
Of the unseen moon in the darkest night ;
He dwells in the bud of the wet, green leaf,
He lurks in the seed of the long-dried sheaf!
Source of boundless misery,
Joy were joyless without thee!
He climbs into heaven, he dives into hell;
He sits on the thrones where the angels dwell;
He walks through the haunts of the seals that
fell:
For what can madden the tortured mind
Like a glimpse of the heaven it left behind?
WHAT?
What is Love? It is the striving
Of two spirits to be one:
Sweetness hungering after sweetness;
Want that thirsteth for completeness;
Two planets, formed by fate to be
Each other’s dear necessity-
Each from each its light deriving,
Till they melt into a sun.
(Ernest Jones)
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