Love after death?

Leander was  a young man that fell hopelessly in love with Hero his mistress.  He risked his life every night swimming to her shore to find the love of his life. The journey he mad every night was one that was risky and dangerous.  "The distance in the narrowest part is almost a mile, and there is a constant current setting out from the Sea of Marmora into the Archipelago. Since Byron’s time the feat has been achieved by others; but it yet remains a test of strength and skill in the art of swimming sufficient to give a wide and lasting celebrity to any one of our readers who may dare to make the attempt and succeed in accomplishing it." Many doubted that Leander was actually capable of doing this. "The story of Leander’s swimming the Hellespont was looked upon as fabulous, and the feat considered impossible, till Lord Byron proved its possibility by performing it himself."

I believe that after Hero's death she and Leander were reunited in an "after life". Because this fragment of the poem is saying that the waves did not divide these two lovers for long and that Leander saw the light of love coming in through the waves. 

"Though rising gale and breaking foam
	And shrieking sea-birds warned him home;
	And clouds aloft and tides below,
	With signs and sounds forbade to go,
	He could not see, he would not hear
	Or sound or sight foreboding fear.
	His eye but saw that light of love,
	The only star it hailed above;
	His ear but rang with Hero’s song,
	‘Ye waves, divide not lovers long."