That either’s care from heart to heart may flow,

Impelled by one desire, one energy;

If bodies both are by one soul controlled,

That wingèd bears them up to heaven’s gate;

If love, with one essay, doth penetrate

And burn two bosoms with one shaft of gold;

If living each in other, self forgot,

One liking, one felicity, awake

One will to move toward one desirèd lot;

If thousand ties as holy, fail to make