From heaven did always choose their way,

And therefore we may boldly say,

That ’tis the way, too, thither.

How happy here should I

And one dear she, live, and embracing die!

She who is all the world, and can exclude

In deserts solitude.

I should have then this only fear—

Lest men, when they my pleasures see,

Should hither throng to live like me