happy st. valentine's day
Next door to each other, in the brick-walled city built by Semiramis, lived a boy and girl, Pyramus, a most handsome fellow, Thisbe, loveliest of all those Eastern girls. Their nearness made them acquainted, and love grew, in time, so that they would have married, but their parents forbade it. But their parents could not keep them from being in love: their nods and gestures showed it - You know how fire suppressed burns all the fiercer.
There was a chink in the wall between the houses, a flaw the careless builder had never noticed, nor anyone else, for many years, detected, but the lovers found it - love is a finder, always -
The Story of Pyramus and Thisbe
Metamorphoses
-Ovid