Summary

(Note that this guide will use the pronouns "he/him/his" for the speaker and the pronouns "she/her/hers" for his lover, but that the poem itself does not indicate a gender for either character).

The speaker wonders what he and his lover did before they met. He compares them both to unweaned infants and to children, or to the mythical "seven sleepers" (4). He believes that anything he ever enjoyed before meeting his lover was only a dream predicting the true joy he would know with her.

As they wake, the speaker notes that they cannot stop watching each other, but out of love rather than any kind of "fear" (9). He believes that their love is so expansive that it can allow everything to be contained no matter how small the space they share may be. He states that he does not care...