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Love is but folly, - since the wisest love - ZaunköniG - 15.07.2007
Love is but folly, - since the wisest love
Itself disclaiming, would invent a use
For its free motion. – penitents recluse,
That scarce allow the natural heart to move,
With amorous ditties woo the mystic dove,
Or fondly bid their heavenly Spouse unloose
Their sacred zones. – The politic excuse
Of worldlings would to wourdly ends improve
The gentle madness. – Courtiers glibly preach
How Love and Woman best rehearse the play
That statesmen act. – The grave fine-spoken leech
Counts how the beatings of the pulse betray
The sweet disease. – And all the poets teach
That love alone can build the lofty lay