WITH what inward joy, sweet lay, <br /> <br />I thy meaning have descried! <br />Lovingly thou seem'st to say <br /> <br />That I'm ever by his side; <br /> <br />That he ever thinks of me, <br /> <br />That he to the absent gives <br />All his love's sweet ecstasy, <br /> <br />While for him alone she lives. <br /> <br />Yes, the mirror which reveals <br /> <br />Thee, my loved one, is my breast; <br />This the bosom, where thy seals <br /> <br />Endless kisses have impress'd. <br /> <br />Numbers sweet, unsullied truth, <br /> <br />Chain me down in sympathy! <br />Love's embodied radiant youth, <br /> <br />In the garb of poesy!<br /><br />Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/book-of-suleika-suleika-04/
