What is the Law of True Marriage?

But happy they! the happiest of their kind!

Whom gentle stars unite, and in one fate

Their hearts, their fortunes and their beings blend.

'Tis not the coarser tie of human laws,

Unnatural oft, and foreign to the mind,

That binds their peace, but harmony itself,

Attuning all their passions into love.

Where friendship full exerts her softest power,

Perfect esteem enlivened by desire

Ineffable, and sympathy of soul—

Thought meeting thought, and will preventing will,

With boundless confidence—for naught but love

Can answer love, and render bliss secure.

—By a Spirit