Wednesday 22 August 2007

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 another's being mingle -
Why not I with thine?

See, the mountains kiss high heaven,
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister flower could be forgiven
If it disdained its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea;-
What are all these kissings worth,
If thou kiss not me?


Shelley

This post features a completely piss-poor
joke which is unlikely to be understood by Americans at all, nor by Brits under the age of 35...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Elmer,

What a beautiful poem !
Can I cut and paste it, please ?

:)

Elmer Quigley Gooseburger said...

Cut and paste?

That's all I did...

Well, dead poets don't sue, allegedly...