Sara Teasdale - Child, Child

Child, child, love while you can <br />The voice and the eyes and the soul of a man, <br />Never fear though it break your heart - <br />Out of the wound new joy will start; <br />Only love proudly and gladly and well <br />Though love be heaven or love be hell. <br /> <br />Child, child, love while you may, <br />For life is short as a happy day; <br />Never fear the thing you feel - <br />Only by love is life made real; <br />Love, for the deadly sins are seven, <br />Only through love will you enter heaven.<br /><br />Sara Teasdale<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/child-child-2/