If one chaste love, if one divine compassion, <br />If one destiny is equal for two lovers, <br />If one hard fate of the one is felt by the other, <br />If one spirit, if one will guides two hearts; <br />If one soul in two bodies makes itself eternal, <br />Lifting both to heaven with a single wing, <br />If Love in one blow and one golden arrow <br />The hearts in two chests can burn and tear; <br />If the one loves the other and neither loves himself, <br />With one pleasure and one delight, to such a measure <br />That one and the other desire to reach a single end: <br />Thousands and thousands would not make a hundredth <br />Of such a knot of love, or of such a faith: <br />And only anger could break and untie it.<br /><br />Michelangelo Buonarroti<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/if-one-chaste-love/
