Up to God!

SEEKING.

I went to look for Love among the roses, the roses,

The pretty wingèd boy with the arrow and the bow;

In the fair and fragrant places,

’Mid the Muses and the Graces,

At the feet of Aphrodite, with the roses all aglow.

Then I sought among the shrines where the rosy flames were leaping—

The rose and golden flames, never ceasing, never still—

For the boy so fair and slender,