All the old English ballads sing,not of love, but of true

love .It is monogamic fidelity that is singable.

Doubtless men have enjoyed their harems and lady light

-o loves have their pleasures. BUT that sort of thing

never gets into the poetry of people.

"Douglas, Douglas, tender and true",is sung

by every pair of turtle doves of honest mind.

"The rhapsodies of Thais,Laid and Sappho are nibbled
in seclusion. The cause is not wholly the influence of
Christianity. It is rather psychological. The highest type
of affection is between two,and exclusive.
Bulwer
-Lytton says that a man who truly loves a woman there
is something a bit repellent or distrateful in any other
woman. As loyalty is the highest flavor of love, so
disloyalty brings to the heart its most terrible bitterness,
a feeling like death.

"The best of all to a lover is that he can
bring that light into her face and that thrill into her blood,
'but thAt no other man can love., as a mere pleasure,
palls; it is a brother to cruelty.
Loyal love outlasts the fire of youth, warms old age,
scorns death and endures in heaven.

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