Love's Philosophy

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Love's Philosophy (:40)

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode

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 the sunlight clasps the earth,       

And the moonbeams kiss the sea—    

What are all these kissings worth,        

If thou kiss not me?