Poems (Odom)/To My Husband ('T is midnight; in the azure sky)
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TO MY HUSBAND.
D. M'CALEB.
'T is midnight; in the azure sky The sleepless stars "their vigils keep";But slumber flies my wakeful eye— I think, and dream, but cannot sleep.
Yet each wild dream that wanders o'er This madly throbbing heart of mine,But seals the bond it wore before, And makes me dearly, doubly thine.
Though absent, thou art with me still, No distance can divide us now,—The magic words "wilt thou?" "I will" Have bound us with a deathless vow.
Yes, bound us with a silver chain That naught on earth may widely sever; Those bright, immortal links, I fain Would wear around my heart forever.
Would wear them till I seek my rest Beneath the pallid wing of death;Then clasp them to my heaving breast, And kiss them ere I yield my breath.