7. - Love me, for I love you

"Qui primavera sempre ed ogni frutto."--Dante.

"Ragionando con meco ed io con lui."--Petrarca.

"Love me, for I love you"--and answer me,

"Love me, for I love you"--so shall we stand

As happy equals in the flowering land

Of love, that knows not a dividing sea.

Love builds the house on rock and not on sand,

Love laughs what while the winds rave desperately;

And who hath found love's citadel unmanned?

And who hath held in bonds love's liberty?

My heart's a coward though my words are brave--

We meet so seldom, yet we surely part

So often; there's a problem for your art!

Still I find comfort in his Book, who saith,

Though jealousy be cruel as the grave,

And death be strong, yet love is strong as death.