Love

_Totus est Inermis Idem_...

No show of bolts and bars

Can keep the foeman out,

Or 'scape his secret mine

Who enter'd with the doubt

That drew the line.

No warder at the gate

Can let the friendly in;

But, like the sun, o'er all

He will the castle win,

And shine along the wall.

Implacable is Love--

Foes may be bought or teased

From their hostile intent,

But he goes unappeased

Who is on kindness bent.

--_Henry David Thoreau_

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