Oh, Call It by Some Better Name

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h1 id="id02966" style="margin-top: 6em">OH, CALL IT BY SOME BETTER NAME.</h1> <p id="id02967" style="margin-top: 2em">Oh, call it by some better name,<br/> For Friendship sounds too cold,<br/> While Love is now a worldly flame,<br/> Whose shrine must be of gold:<br/> And Passion, like the sun at noon,<br/> That burns o'er all he sees,<br/> Awhile as warm will set as soon—<br/> Then call it none of these.<br/></p> <p id="id02968">Imagine something purer far,<br/> More free from stain of clay<br/> Than Friendship, Love, or Passion are,<br/> Yet human, still as they:<br/> And if thy lip, for love like this,<br/> No mortal word can frame,<br/> Go, ask of angels what it is,<br/> And call it by that name!<br/></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />