NOTHING SO SWEET.
Nothing so sweet in all the world there is
Than this-to stand apart in Love's retreat
And gaze at Love. There is as that, ywis,
Nothing so sweet.
Yet surely God hath placed before our feet
Some sweeter sweetness and completer bliss,
And something that shall prove more truly meet.
Soothly I know not:-when the live lips kiss
There is no more that our prayers shall entreat,
Save only Death. Perhaps there is as this
Nothing so sweet.
Charles Sayle.