So that such perfect unison
Exists we are not two but one;
Or like two harps—touch one, you make
The spirit of its fellow wake.

Love 'twixt the sexes scarce may be
From all attaint of passion free;
But ours is love without desire,
A pure and unconsuming fire;
With no base element's alloy
No surfeit can its power destroy,
Which lasts, with full assurance crowned,
Like light and heat together bound.