Love's Philosophy
The fountains mingle with the river
And the rivers with the ocean,
The winds of heaven mix for ever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle.
Why not I with thine?-
See the mountains 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 is all this sweet work worth
If thou not kiss me?
By ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
4 August 1792 - 8 July 1822
Image By - Gustav, Klimt ~ Girlfriends or Two Women Friends 1916-17,
(Galerie Welz, Salzburg, later destroyed)