Lovers in the act despense <br />With such meum-tuum sense <br />As might warningly reveal <br />What they must not pick or steal, <br />And their nostrum is to say: <br />'I and you are both away.' <br /> <br />After, when they disentwine <br />You from me and yours from mine, <br />Neither can be certain who <br />Was that I whose mine was you. <br />To the act again they go <br />More completely not to know. <br /> <br />Theft is theft and raid is raid <br />Though reciprocally made. <br />Lovers, the conclusion is <br />Doubled sighs and jealousies <br />In a single heart that grieves <br />For lost honour among thieves.<br /><br />Robert Graves<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-thieves/
