There is a Love

There is a love diviner than life,
That the throbbing heart cannot fathom,
Like a lovely glimpse of a distant future,
Removing the curtains and veils of eternal life.
The mortal heart is raised to more sublime latitude,
Like the pearly crests of the lofty stars,
And this brief odyssey of flesh forgotten.
So she raised me to this imperial state,
And I forgot all the common stains of life,
And tasted all those crystalline floods,
That are often denied to this posterity