Chocolove

While shopping with a friend earlier this evening, I found this fantastic chocolate bar: Chocolove. The chocolate bar itself wasn't anything overly special: it's a bar of dark chocolate with 70% cocoa (which is my favourite). No, the selling point was that there is a love poem inside!

When I first saw this selling feature, I knew I had to get the chocolate bar just for the love poem; had know what it was. So as my friend and I were walking out of Homesense, which was where I found the chocolate bar, I tore into it, looking for the love poem. The poem was titled The Sleeping Beauty by Samuel Rogers, and it was printed on the inside of the wrapper. This wasn't the type of poem I was expecting to find in a chocolate bar. I'm not sure what exactly I was expecting, but it wasn't really this. I might head back in a few days to buy another Chocolove, just to see if you end up with the same poem.

In case you can't read it in the picture, here's the poem:

The Sleeping Beauty

Sleep on, and dream of Heaven awhile -
Tho' shut so close thy laughing eyes,
Thy rosy lips still wear a smile
And move, and breathe delicious sighs!

Ah, now soft blushes tinge her cheeks
And mantle o'er her neck of snow:
Ah, now she murmurs, now she speaks
What most I wish - and fear to know!

She starts, she trembles, and she weeps!
Her fair hands folded on her breast:
-And now, how like a saint she sleeps!
A seraph in the realms of rest!

Sleep on secure! Above controul
Thy thoughts belong to Heaven and thee:
And may the secret of thy soul
Remain within its sanctuary!

-Samuel Rogers.