Is it given to any to grant all that love beseeches? And yet

Were all love sought bestowed, what sequel?

Perhaps 't were well to leave love but semi-satisfied. At bottom the
real question is this: What will win and keep me another heart? But

How to win and keep another heart, that is a thing has to be found out
for oneself--if it be discoverable. And always by the experimental
method. Since

In matters amatory, there is no a priori reasoning possible. All we know
is that

There is nothing more potent than passion. And

The chasm, which seems to innocence to yawn between virtue and frailty,
is leapt by that Pegasus, Passion, at a bound--but he blinds his rider
in the feat.

* * *

In spite of the poesy of love, deeds are more potent than words;
--though perhaps it is well to pave the way for the one by the other.

In spite, too of the piety of love, love laughs at promises--that is,
the promises that affect it.

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