Love’s Wisdom

Now on the summit of Love's topmost peak Kiss we and part; no farther can we go: And better death than we from high to low Should dwindle or decline from strong to weak. We have found all, there is no more to seek; All have we proved, no more is there to know; And Time could only tutor us to eke Out rapture's warmth with custom's afterglow. We cannot keep at such a height as this; And even straining souls like ours inhale But once in life so rarefied a bliss. What if we lingered till love's breath should fail! Heaven of my Earth! one more celestial kiss, Then down by separate pathways to the vale.