Classic Poem

No love, to love of man and wife;
No hope, to hope of constant heart;
No joy, to joy in wedded life;
No faith, to faith in either part:
Flesh is of flesh, and bone of bone
When deeds and words and thoughts are one.

No hate, to hate of man and wife;
No fear, to fear of double heart;
No death, to discontented life;
No grief, to grief when friends depart:
They tear the flesh and break the bone
That are in word or thought alone.

Thy friend an other friend may be,
But other self is not the same:
Thy wife the self-same is with thee,
In body, mind, in goods and name:
No thine, no mine, may other call,
Now all is one, and one is all.