Desire and Fulfillment

There is sweet delight hidden in desire.

There is yearning strong each lover knows.

Too easy conquest disappointment sows.

There is yearning that sets the heart on fire,

There is wooing that flows from desire

Enflaming the heart as each lover knows.

It reveals the heart and all its nature shows

Fanning the bright flames of the heart on fire.

Such yearnings and such wooing bear fruition

When both lover and beloved know themselves

As whole, yet each the other gladly serves

Without dissembling or diminution.

Blessed the lovers who belong each to other

And covenant to love one another.