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INTO COLD INDIFFERENCE.

Into cold indifference
  I strive to curb my soul:
Love's embitter'd vehemence
Every feeling's turbulence
  Thus I might controul.

All unagitatedly
  On its azure way
Moves along each placid star,
Beautifully regular;
  Passionless are they.

Thus the Mind would shape its course
  With purpose firm and high;
But, alas, the vain endeavour!
The Heart, the Heart is human ever;
   It must love or die.

What has Love bestow'd on thee?
  Evanescent joy,
But a long-enduring anguish,
Memories no time may vanquish,
  No resolve destroy.

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