DON JUAN’S SONG

The moon is in an ecstasy,

It wanes not nor can grow;

The heavens are in a mist of love,

And deepest knowledge know:

What things in nature seem to move

Bear love as I bear love?

And bear my pleasures so?

I bear my love as streams that bear

The sky still flow or shake:

Though deep within, too far on high.

Light blossoms kiss and wake

The waters sooner than the sky;

And if they kiss and die

God made them frail to break.