...love's labour lost

Yet here for ever, ever must I stay;
Sad proof how well a lover can obey!
Death, only death, can break the lasting chain;
And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain,
Here all its frailties, all its flames resign,
And wait till 'tis no sin to mix with thine.

Thou know'st how guiltless first I met thy flame,
When Love approach'd me under Friendship's name;
My fancy form'd thee of angelic kind,
Some emanation of th' all-beauteous Mind.

Those smiling eyes, attemp'ring ev'ry day,
Shone sweetly lambent with celestial day.
Guiltless I gaz'd; heav'n listen'd while you sung;
And truths divine came mended from that tongue.

From lips like those what precept fail'd to move?
Too soon they taught me 'twas no sin to love.
Dim and remote the joys of saints I see;
Nor envy them, that heav'n I lose for thee.

"I walked the avenue till my legs felt like stone 
I heard the voices of friends vanished and gone 
At night I could hear the blood in my veins 
Black and whispering as the rain.

The night has fallen, I'm lying awake 

I can feel myself fading away 
So receive me brother with your faithless kiss 
Or will we leave each other alone like this."

Music for Souls

"If music be the food of love,
sing on till I'm filled with joy.

For then my listening soul you move,
to pleasures that can never cloy.

Your eyes, your mien, your tongue declare,
that you're music everywhere."