Love-making,—how simple a matter! No depths to explore,

No heights in a life to ascend! No disheartening Before,

No affrighting Hereafter,—love now will be love evermore.

So I felt "To keep silence were folly:"—all language above,

I made love.

X. PLOT-CULTURE

"Ay, but, Ferishtah,"—a disciple smirked,—

"That verse of thine 'How twinks thine eye, my Love,

Blue as yon star-beam!' much arrides myself

Who haply may obtain a kiss therewith