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SONNET.
UR wedding day! how swift that sound can bringA tide of rushing thoughts to life again!
Love, youth, and joy, sweet hopes accomplished then,
And all the glowing hues of life's brief Spring.
Light years have passed, on swift though silent wing,
Since joined to part no more, on this glad day
We felt as if time now could never fling
One passing shadow o'er our onward way.
Sunshine and shade alternate chequering mark
The path of all; yet, dearest, still to me
Thy love can brighten all that seems most dark;
The lot thou sharest never dim can be.
O that each future year in mercy given
May find our hearts still joined on earth, but fixed in heaven!
E.
July 4, 1845.
