Love, thou art absolute sole Lord Of life and death
Life, that dares send / A challenge to his end, / And when it comes say, `Welcome, friend!`
O thou undaunted daughter of desires! / By all thy dower of lights and fires; / By all the eagle in thee, all the dove; / By all thy lives and deaths of love; / By thy large draughts of intellectual day.
The conscious water saw its God, and blushed.
It was Thy day, sweet! and did rise / Not from the East, but from Thine eyes.
And when life`s sweet fable ends, Soul and body part like friends; No quarrels, murmurs, no delay; A kiss, a sigh, and so away.
Two walking baths; two weeping motions;/ Portable, and compendious oceans.
Welcome, all wonders in one sight! Eternity shut in a span.
Farewell house, and farewell home! / She`s for the Moors, and martyrdom.