I could not love you more than here, than now…
Wrapped in your arms, alone beneath the stars;
I search the dark to find your warm sweet mouth
And close my eyes as if the moon might mar
Those deep wild inner thoughts that in me lay,
Unveiling all my heart-borne fantasies;
Nor could my softest whispers better say,
In any tongue, that this should ever be.
I feel so proud, replete in loving care—
Would that soft silver beams now show your face
And let me see the beauty glowing there,
That fortune grants I may so here embrace.
There is no human triumph more than this;
To bask in peerless love…so sealed in bliss…