And your true feelings fully understood,
No friend like to a woman Earth discovers,
So that you have not been nor will be lovers.
XCIV.
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?