A Paradox + 

I know you love me better cold + 

Strange as the pyramids of old + 

Responselessly. + 

But I am frail, and spent and weak + 

With surging torrents that bespeak + 

A living fire. + 

So, like a veil, my poor disguise + 

Is draped to save me from your eyes’ + 

Deep challenges. + 

Fain would I fling this robe aside + 

And from you, in your bosom hide + 

Eternally. + 

Alas! you love me better cold + 

Like frozen pyramids of old + 

Unyieldingly? + 