Est meum et est tuum, amice! at si amborum nequit esse,
Sit meum, amice, precor: quia certe sum mage pauper.
'Tis mine and it is likewise yours;
But and if this will not do,
Let it be mine, because that I
Am the poorer of the Two!
Nov. 1, 1801. First published in the Preface to Christabel, 1816. First collected 1893.
5
Names do not always meet with Love,
And Love wants courage without a name.[997:1]
Dec. 1801. Now first published from an MS.
6
The Moon, how definite its orb!
Yet gaze again, and with a steady gaze—
'Tis there indeed,—but where is it not?—
It is suffused o'er all the sapphire Heaven,
Trees, herbage, snake-like stream, unwrinkled Lake,
Whose very murmur does of it partake!