REFLECTIVE POEM: "LADY LOVES" Prologue "BE FAITHFUL TO YOUR LOVE AND YOU WILL BE RECOMPENSED BEYOND MEASURE." Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965) Nobel Peace Laureate of 1952, Theologian, Missionary, Musicologist and Physician STANZA ONE Happy is the man with more than one girl Their loving double the range of pure joy In their warm presence he feels like an earl Their delight granted to him to enjoy STANZA TWO Each woman to him rare and precious None feeling slighted or secondary Rapture unknown to the sententious Pleasure unaffected by prudery STANZA THREE Hands and hearts linked happily together Gazing at each other softheartedly Speaking to each other without blether With no hindrances and unobstructedly STANZA FOUR Affection, care and respect once withheld Now restored in welcome deliverance All vicious rumours overcome and quelled A happy end to enforced abstinence Epilogue "FROM ALL THE OFFSPRING OF THE EARTH AND HEAVEN LOVE IS THE MOST PRECIOUS." Sappho (620 - 570 BC), Greek Lyric Poetess from the island of Lesbos. POET: DR MICHAEL VAUGHAN DATE: SUNDAY, 6 OCTOBER 2013 PLACE: BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA
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