Above all else, I love you because of your Soul,
The infinite vistas opening out from your Soul.
Blessed be that Soul!
And since I love you,
Since my life is entwined with your life,
My ideals with your ideals,—
Gray matter and red blood have sealed the pledge,—
I wish you to guard the beacon fires lit on your mountains,
I wish you to grow,
And increase in the strength of body,