Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Excerpts "To Rhea"

If with love thy heart has burned;
If thy love is unreturned;
Hide thy grief within thy breast,
Though it tear thee unexpressed;
For when love has once departed
From the eyes of the false-hearted,
And one by one has torn off quite
The bandages of purple light;
Though thou wert the loveliest
Form the soul had ever dressed.

Warning to the blind and deaf,
'Tis written on the iron leaf,
Who drinks of cupid's nectar cup
Loveth downward, and not up;
Therefore, who loves, of gods or men,
Shall not by the same be loved again.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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