Love insists the loved loves back

Still desiring, we live without hope.

A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded.

This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.

Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here.

No man may be so cursed by priest or pope but what the Eternal Love may still return while any thread of green lives on in hope.

So that the Universe felt love, by which, as somebelieve, the world has many times been turned to chaos. And at that moment this ancient rock, here and elsewhere, fell broken into pieces.