Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with >>
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone. >>
One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, >>
The human voice is the organ of the soul. >>
At some glad moment was it nature's choice to dower a scrap of sunset >>
Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend t >>
The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.