His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might
Be wrong: his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
Is it, in heaven, a crime to love too well?—Pope: Elegy.
Imitated from Crashawe’s couplet:—
And I,—what is my crime? I cannot tell,
Unless it be a crime to have loved too well.
Lamartine, in his Jocelyn, has the same expression:—
Est-ce un crime, O mon Dieu, de trop aimer le beau?