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Love gives us copious potions of delight, / Of pain and ecstasy, and peace and care; / Love leads us upward, to the mountain height, / And, like an angel, stands beside us there; / Then thrusts us, demon-like, in some abyss: / Where, in the darkness of despair, we grope, / Till, suddenly, Love greets us with a kiss / And guides us back to flowery fields of hope.
Love makes all wisdom seem but poorest folly, / And yet the simplest mind with Love grows wise, / The gayest heart he teaches melancholy, / Yet glorifies the erstwhile brooding eyes. / Love lives on change, and yet at change Love mocks, / For Love's whole life is one great paradox.