Make channels for the stream of love
Where it may broadly run
And love has overflowing streams
To fill them, everyone.
But if at any time we cease
Such channels to provide
The very fonts of love for us
Will soon be parched and dried.
For we must share if we would keep
That blessing from above;
Ceasing to give, we cease to have -
Such is the law of love.
Richard Chenevix Trench (1807-1886)