-- Alas, is even Love too weak

Tounlock the heart,  and let it speak?

Are even lovers powerless to reveal

To one another what indeed they feel?

I knew the mass of men conseal'd

Their thoughts, for fear that it reveal'd

They would by other men be met

With blank indifference, or with blame reprove'd:

I knew they liv'd and mov'd

Trick'd in disquises, alien to the rest

Of men, and alien to themselves -- and yet

The same heart beats in every human breast."

 

                                       -- Matthew Arnold,

                                       English poet, critic, essayist

                                       (1822-1888)

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