Random Poetry Stuck In My Head

[xakara]

True love ’s the gift which God has given
To man alone beneath the heaven:
  It is not fantasy’s hot fire,
    Whose wishes soon as granted fly;
  It liveth not in fierce desire,
    With dead desire it doth not die;
It is the secret sympathy,
The silver link, the silken tie,
Which heart to heart and mind to mind
In body and in soul can bind.

--Sir Walter Scott
The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Cantro V, Stanza 13