LOVE'S PHILOSOPHY

 

The fountains mingle with the river
And the rivers with the ocean,
The winds of heaven mix forever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single,
All things by a law divine
In one another's being mingle -
Why not I with thine?

See the mountain's kiss high heaven
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister-flower would be forgiven
If it disdained its brother:

And the sunlight clasps the Earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea -
What are all these kissing's worth,
If you kiss not me?

Percy Bysshe Shelley