LOVE'S PHILOSOPHY

LOVE'S PHILOSOPHY

　　——by Percy Bysshe Shelley

　　The fountains mingle¹ 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 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 disdained² its brother;

　　And the sunlight clasps the earth

　　And the moonbeams kiss the sea:

　　What is all this sweet work worth

　　If thou kiss not me?