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With apologies to Heather for using the same source (but hey, great minds think alike): Happy Valentine's Day!
I never have known love but as a kiss
In the mid-battle, and a difficult truce
Of oil and water, candles and dark night,
Hillside and hollow, the hot-footed sun,
And the cold sliding, slippery-footed moon--
A brief forgiveness between opposites
That have been hatreds for three times the age
Of this long-'stablished ground.
-On Baile's Strand, Yeats
And, on a sillier note: a video. My husband showed this to me on our anniversary last year, because we share his, um, slightly unconventional view of romance, probably because we know a little statistics...
I never have known love but as a kiss
In the mid-battle, and a difficult truce
Of oil and water, candles and dark night,
Hillside and hollow, the hot-footed sun,
And the cold sliding, slippery-footed moon--
A brief forgiveness between opposites
That have been hatreds for three times the age
Of this long-'stablished ground.
-On Baile's Strand, Yeats
And, on a sillier note: a video. My husband showed this to me on our anniversary last year, because we share his, um, slightly unconventional view of romance, probably because we know a little statistics...
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