It is not love to love a thing That dies for such a death may bring Decrease in what you thought was love When comes to pass the painful sting Of time. But love is what may grow As separation floods the soul With tears bear the vessel of Your longing for the love you know But how can separation be When eyes have never been to see What we believe is our beloved? It follows then that we and he Have met before the birth of time Before the birth of pain and rhyme For we know what we feel inside Is from a separation’s tide