Chapter 20 clods and pebbles
love does not seek to be happy
don't take care of yourself
sacrificed comfort for others
Build heaven out of hell's despair
A little stone sings like this
being stuck on the cow's feet and trampled on
meet a pebble in a stream
it sings these rhymes softly
Love only seeks to satisfy oneself
force others to be comfortable
Take pleasure in others and lose comfort
Build hell in heaven's abomination
Love seeketh not Itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care;
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hells despair.
So sang a little Clod of Clay,
Trodden with the cattle feet:
But a Pebble of the brook,
Warbled out these meters meet;
Love seeketh only Self to please,
To bind another to its delight;
Joys in another loss of ease,
And builds a Hell in Heavens despite.