Let me not, ever, to the marriage in Cana br Of Galilee admit the slightest sentiment br Of doubt about the astonishing and sustaining manna br Of chance and choice to throw a shadow's element br Of disbelief in truth -- Love is not love br Nor is the love of love its truth in consciousness br If it can be made hesitant by any crow or dove or br seeming angel or demon from above or from below br Or made more than it is knows itself to be by the authority br of any ministry of love. br br O no -- it is the choice of chances and the chancing of br all choice -- the wine br which was the water may be sickening, unsatisfying or br sour br A new barbiturate drawn from the fattest flower br That prospers green on Lethe's shore. For every hour br Denies or once again affirms the vow and the ultimate br tower br Of aspiration which made Ulysses toil so far away from br home br And then, for years, strive against every wanton desire, br sea and fire, to return across the. br ever-threatening seas br A journey forever far beyond all the vivid eloquence br of every poet and all poetry.