Saturday, March 01, 2008

Moonbeams and the Sea


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?

Shelley

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