Dante and the Divine
The truth is love alone it is which moves
The sun and stars. That final line
Of mastery says love alone, love proves
The primal power and makes the heavens a shrine,
And love not only was the first great cause
But also is the passion which compels
The cosmos. High above all other laws,
The mechanistic ones, love’s vigor swells
Behind mere thermodynamic decrees.
Love climaxes in them all. They find their course
And weight from gentlest luring of its breeze.
That brightest weight shows gravity its force.
..The sun and stars feel full its brightest fate.
….The universe is ruled from this estate.
~ Phillip Whidden