There are three kinds of Love: the Love of Wanting what you do not have; the Love for Keeping what you do have; and, the Love of Giving away. One is a conquering love, another a love making, and the third is an offering of love.
The Love of Wanting makes Desire. The Love of Keeping endures a Romance. The Love of Giving takes Sacrifice.
Desire, is personified by an athletic male adolescent charged with potency that persuasively states: "I want." Desire runs through the paradisiacal forest hunting for a golden bull. A company of three small boys follows and reveres Desire as leader. Their names are: Wish, Ambition, and Greed.
Romance, is personified by a charming, soft-spoken virgin, which with praise she whispers: "I keep". Romance tenders for the flowers and beasts that roam the paradisiacal land. Three girls who urge to be of her liking follow her. Their names are: Affection, Pleasure, and Content.
Sacrifice, is represented by a tree. And as the wind passes by through its branches, one can hear in the ruffling of its leaves the word: "I give", while fruits fall to the ground. These then are collected, shared and continuously exchanged by three birds: Kindness, Assistance, and Charity.
PARADISE
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