Ben King's Verse/Lovey-Loves

by Benjamin Franklin King

Oh, love! let us love with a love that loves,
   Loving on with a love forever;
For a love that loves not the love it should love--
   I wot such a love will sever.
But, when two loves love this lovable love,
   Love loves with a love that is best;
And this love-loving, lovable, love-lasting love
   Loves on in pure love's loveliness.

Oh, chide not the love when its lovey-love loves
   With lovable, loving caresses;
For one feels that the lovingest love love can love,
   Loves on in love's own lovelinesses.
And love, when it does love, in secret should love--
   'Tis there where love most is admired;
But the two lovey-loves that don't care where they love
   Make the public most mightily tired.