What is the glory far above <br />All else in human life? <br />Love! Love! <br />There is no form in which the fire <br />Of love its traces has impressed not. <br />Man lives far more in love's desire <br />Than by life's breath, soon possessed not. <br />If all that lives must love or lie, <br />All shapes on earth, or sea, or sky, <br />With one consent, to Heaven cry <br />That the glory far above <br />All else in life is-- <br />Love! O, Love! <br />Thou melancholy thought, which art <br />So fluttering and so sweet, to thee <br />When did I give the liberty <br />Thus to afflict my heart? <br />What is the cause of this new power <br />Which doth my fevered being move, <br />Momently raging more and more? <br />What subtle pain is kindled now, <br />Which from my heart doth overflow <br />Into my senses?<br /><br />Pedro Calderon de la Barca<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/love-love-9/
