QUOTE : As the dawn loves the sunlight that must cease<br />Ere dawn again may rise and pass in peace;<br />Must die that she being dead may live again,<br />To be by his new rising nearly slain.<br />So rolls the great wheel of the great world round,<br />And no change in it and no fault is found,<br />And no true life of perdurable breath,<br />And surely no irrevocable death.<br />Day after day night comes that day may break,<br />And day comes back for night’s reiterate sake.<br />Each into each dies, each of each is born:<br />Day past is night, shall night past not be morn?<br />Out of this moonless and faint-hearted night<br />That love yet lives in, shall there not be light?<br />Light strong as love, that love may live in yet?<br />Alas, but how shall foolish hope forget<br />How all these loving things that kill and die<br />Meet not but for a breath’s space and pass by?<br />Night is kissed once of dawn and dies, and day<br />But touches twilight and is rapt away.<br />So may my love and her love meet once more,<br />And meeting be divided as of yore.<br />Yea, surely as the day-star loves the sun<br />And when he hath risen is utterly undone,<br />So is my love of her and hers of me—<br />And its most sweetness bitter as the sea.