For me to profane1 it
One feeling too falsely disdain3'd
For thee to disdain it.
One hope is too like despair
For prudence4 to smother5
And pity from thee more dear
Than that from another.
I can give not what men call love;
But wilt7 thou accept not
The worship the heart lifts above
And the Heavens reject not:
The desire of the moth6 for the star
Of the night for the morrow
The devotion to something afar
From the sphere of our sorrow?