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