Classic Poem

When all is said and sung, what is the sum?
Love, only love.
What brightest dream hath youth of years to come?
What retrospect turn dim eyes latest from?
Love, only love.

What word sounds sweetest in the poet's rhyme?
Love, only love.
What tales first told in some forgotten clime,
From heart to heart, throb through the lapse of time?
Love, only love.

The guide-star of the soul's divine endeavor,
Love, only love.
The bond of lives which death cannot dissever,
The litany the seraphs sing forever —
Love, only love.