ΑΡΤΣΙΜΠΑΛΝΤ ΜΑΚΛΕΪΣ

ARCHIBALD MACLEISH

PSYCHE WITH THE CANDLE

Love which is the most difficult mystery

Asking from every young one answers

And most from those most eager and most beautiful--

Love is a bird in a fist:

To hold it hides it, to look at it lets it go.

It will twist loose if you lift so much as a finger.

It will stay if you cover it-- stay but unknown and

invisible.

Either you keep it forever with fist closed

Or let it fling

Singing in fervor of sun and in song vanish.

There is no answer other to this mystery.