I cannot magnify my heart’s embrace <br />more than to say I love you, there’s an end. <br />Unto all things a season and a place, <br />but love has no enlargement, no amend. <br /> <br />Perfection and restraint each other crave. <br />I cannot say I am the perfect giver, <br />since all the love that I can ever have <br />is yours to keep forever round forever. <br /> <br />I hope it fills you with sweet happiness <br />and your own heart is pleased to magnify it. <br />If so, the world loves us, all seasons bless <br />us, just as hard as this is true, deny it. <br /> <br />And down the ages hence all who love thus <br />will but do honor and remember us.<br /><br />Edward Wright Haile<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/zz-176-a-valentine-for-bess/
