And your true feelings fully understood,

No friend like to a woman Earth discovers,

So that you have not been nor will be lovers.

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Love bears within its breast the very germ

Of Change; and how should this be otherwise?

That violent things more quickly find a term

Is shown through Nature's whole analogies;[728]

And how should the most fierce of all be firm?

Would you have endless lightning in the skies?