Chapter 38 PAIN.

O, Pain, Love's mystery,

Close next of kin

To joy and heart's delight,

Low Pleasure's opposite,

Choice food of sanctity

And medicine of sin,

Angel, whom even they that will pursue

Pleasure with hell's whole gust

Find that they must

Perversely woo,

My lips, thy live coal touching, speak thee true.

Thou sear'st my fle