However Measured [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]

IMG_9928  Darlink Bleaders,

Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit
impediments. Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such
desperate enterprises?  Love is not
love which alters when it alteration finds,
or bends with the remover to remove.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears
a different drummer, an ever-fixèd mark, that looks on tempests and is never
shaken.
Why?

Should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such
desperate enterprises?

Love's not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
within
his bending sickle's compass come,
love alters not with his brief hours and
weeks,
but bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me
proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.  Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured
and far away. 

Let me not, to the marriage of true minds. Why should we be in
such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises. Let me not
admit impediments.  Love is a
product that follows from devotion. 
Love is not love — you’ve got the wrong word there — if what you
call love alters when it alteration finds.


If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it
is because he hears a different drummer, an ever-fixèd mark that looks on
tempests and is never shaken.  By
definition it is the outcome of devotion. 
That’s why it is an ever-fixed mark.

 Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
within
his bending sickle's compass come;
love alters not with his brief hours and
weeks,
but bears it out even to the edge of doom.
Why should we be in such
desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises.

Bear it out even to the edge of doom.  Let us step to the music which we hear,
however measured and far away.  If
this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.  

But he did writ and so did I and they (bard and Walden's warden) did love and so do I.

Love,

Jennifer

ps more soon xoxjmh