These two elephants stare at each other perpetually. They're probably in love, but can do nothing about it. There are some advantages in such an arrangement, as John Keats said in his Ode on a Grecian Urn, when he consoles two lovers fixed forever on the surface of a vase...Bold lover, never, never can you kiss,
though winning near the goal - yet do not grieve;
She cannot fade, though you have not your bliss,
Forever will you love, and she be fair!
The general idea is expressed in another line in the poem: Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / are sweeter...
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Oh...that's a beautiful poem by Keats. Also, these lines from Emily Dickinson come to my mind for these 'elephants in love':
I cannot live with You
It would be Life
And Life is over there
Behind the Shelf
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I could not die with You
For One must wait
To shut the Other's Gaze down
You could not
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So We must meet apart
You there – I – here
With just the Door ajar
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Thanks.
Sandy.
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