1. I see love does not perish, nor did time cause it to cease
All who loved, whether asleep or awake in ages past

2. Were all possessed by it in their innermost hearts
Speaking of it altogether in verse

3. Love is but a hearing by the ear and a glance by the eye
A garden of the heart, beyond talk and recollection

4. If it were aught else, passion would have worn it away
And rendered it feeble, even were it made of rock