McClure's Magazine/Volume 51/Number 10/Isabel, William and Albert


 * of the Universe! Eternal Love!
 * Making for change and death—but for life!
 * Multiform, mysterious, exhaustless,
 * It is not through you that our spirits become one—
 * A bond in the flesh on earth,
 * And mingled flames in this realm?
 * We three, lovers, husbands of the same woman!
 * First I, this woman that was,
 * Who loved William and was his wife,
 * And loved him none the less in death,
 * Nor less when I became the wife,
 * Of you, my adored Albert;
 * Next I, this man William,
 * Who loved you, Albert, in life,
 * And next in death,
 * Because you loved the Isabel I loved.
 * And lastly, I who was Albert,
 * Who loved you, William, because you loved her,
 * Because she loved you,
 * I, who was her husband to the last,
 * Treasuring your memory with her—
 * Being, O blissful fate, what you were to her,
 * With something else which spoke for progress in love.
 * This is the mystery, the final consummation,
 * The illumination of passion,
 * The realization of eternal light
 * From the love of man and woman on earth!