This is the subject of a poem equally admirable in its descriptive and its emotional passages, _Two in the Campagna_.
The line "One near one is too far," might serve as its motto.
Satisfaction is all but reached and never can be reached.

Two hearts touch and never can unite.

One drop of the salt estranging sea is as unplumbed as the whole ocean.

And the only possible end is Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.[65] Compared with such a failure as this an offer of love rejected, rejected with decision but not ungenerously, may be accounted a success.

There is something tonic to a brave heart in the putting forth of will, even though it encounter an obstacle which cannot be removed.