For one heat, all know, doth drive out another,
One passion doth expel another still.

One pain is lessened by another’s anguish. ... Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.

He oft finds med'cine, who his griefe imparts;
But double griefs afflict concealing harts,
As raging flames who striveth to supresse.

But double griefs afflict concealing hearts,
As raging flames who striveth to suppress.

The pair were, in truth, but the ashes of their former fires. To the hot sorrow of the previous night had succeeded heaviness; it seemed as if nothing could kindle either of them to fervour of sensation any more.

To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.

It is hard to hate what one has loved,
And a half-extinguished fire is soon relit.

Shared pain is lessened.
Shared joy is increased.

Shared joy is increased;
Shared pain is lessened.

It quieted pain and sorrow, Like love overcoming strife; It seemed the harmonious echo From our discordant life.

This is joy's bonfire, then, where love's strong arts
Make of so noble individual parts
One fire of four inflaming eyes, and of two loving hearts.

When the world is burning,
Fired within, yet turning Round with face unscathed;
Ere fierce flames, uprushing,
O’er all lands leap, crushing, Till earth fall, fire-swathed;
Up amidst the meadows,
Gently through the shadows, Gentle flames will glide,
Small, and blue, and golden.
Though by bard beholden,
When in calm dreams folden,— Calm his dreams will bide.

Though jealousy be produced by love as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love, as ashes smother the flame.

And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.