Wise Men
Not In but With our time Love's energy
Exhibits Love's immediate operation;
The choice to love is open till we die.
Shepherds
O Living Love, by your birth we are able
Not only, like the ox and ass of the stable,
To love with our live wills, but love,
Knowing we love.
Tutti
O Living Love replacing phantasy,
O Joy of life revealed in Love's creation;
Our mood of longing turns to indication:
Space is the Whom our loves are needed by,
Time is our choice of How to love and Why.
--W. H. Auden
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