AND WHAT IS LOVE

           And what is Love?  Hath ever man defined ?
             So small a word, and yet so wonderful!
           The sweetest of the mysteries enshrined
             Within temple of the human soul.
           A power no face can fetter, Time control,
           Whose mystic arms encircle land and sea,
           Lighting the great deeps of Eternity.
           Love is an union of eyes and heart,
                Each bound in willing service to the other,
           No sooner doth the eye its joys impart
                That tears  give answer for its silent brother
           Bright jewelled founts, in which we fain would smother
           The weakness and rapture of our love,
           Forgetful that the gift is from above.
                                   __________ by C.W. Wynne