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 a law divine
In
one another's being 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 disdain'd its brother:
And sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams
kiss the sea --
What are all these kissings worth,
If thou kiss not me?
(von Percy Bysshe
Shelley;
1792-1822)