| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | Love’s Trinity | | By Alfred Austin (1835–1913) |
| | | SOUL, heart, and body, we thus singly name, | |
| Are not in love divisible and distinct, | |
| But each with each inseparably link’d. | |
| One is not honour, and the other shame, | |
| But burn as closely fused as fuel, heat, and flame. | 5 |
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| They do not love who give the body and keep | |
| The heart ungiven; nor they who yield the soul, | |
| And guard the body. Love doth give the whole; | |
| Its range being high as heaven, as ocean deep, | |
| Wide as the realms of air or planet’s curving sweep. | 10 | | | |
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