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LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 7, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: To love and to remember; that is good
Last Line: Can satisfy all hearts, -- yea, thine and mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina


To love and to remember; that is good:
To love and to forget; that is not well:
To lapse from love to hatred; that is hell
And death and torment, rightly understood.
Soul dazed by love and sorrow, cheer thy mood;
More blest art thou than mortal tongue can tell:
Ring not thy funeral but thy marriage bell,
And salt with hope thy life's insipid food.
Love is the goal, love is the way we wend,
Love is our parallel unending line
Whose only perfect Parallel is Christ,
Beginning not begun, End without end:
For He Who hath the Heart of God sufficed,
Can satisfy all hearts, -- yea, thine and mine.





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