Marjorie Holmes Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perserveres.
Love never fails.
But the greatest of these is love. It is a rendering of the ideal and unconditional love and marriage. My lover is radiant and ruddy, outstanding among ten thousand. His eyes are like doves by teh water streams, washed in milk, mounted like jewels. His cheeks are like beds of spice yielding perfume.