So, too,
If passion is not linked with affection--woe worth the day when the
troth was plighted! But given passion linked with affection--ah!
Nothing, nothing is criminal to love; for love knows not conscience. Or
rather,
Love upsets all conventional conditions. For
Love creates a world of its own, a world populated by two--and these
make their own laws--or make none. So
A woman will imbrue her hands with blood, and a man will fling honor to
the winds, and yet the twain regard each other as impeccant and
impeccable.--Till Pippa passes; then,
Love always awakes to the fact that not even a community of two can live
without law; and that
Though human laws may be outraged, those divine may not. And assuredly,
The ideal love is the divine love. And, in ideal love,
Strange, strange, but true, in a great and ardent love, when at last that
is offered which was long sought, there supervenes upon the lovers a
great tenderness, which hesitates to make their own that for which they
yearned.
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