Song, From the Gulf

LOVE from a source admired
Gives a fine pleasure,
Music and measure
Sweetly combining,
Sweet to the sense:
Who, in her senses,
Who, in his mind,
Wants other token
Once having taken
Seizure of this?

Some, who lack choosing,
Drink a dark water,
Brackish and bitter
Drawn from a shrinking pool,
Salt as the sea:
Love, out of season,
Is a poor food,
But, duly taken,
By the same token,
Sustenance is.