Poems (Rice)/Twin Sisters
TWIN SISTERS,WHOM I MET PLAYING ON THE AVENUE WITH GILDED REINS.
O WHERE is your home, ye beautiful things?
Sweet creatures so bright and so fair,
Stay, let me look for your folded wings;
Are they hid 'neath that wealth of hair?
Closer, for ye may a magic impart,
Just a touch of that golden twine;
O stay, I would know if mortal ye art,
Twin sisters of beauty divine.
Sweet creatures so bright and so fair,
Stay, let me look for your folded wings;
Are they hid 'neath that wealth of hair?
Closer, for ye may a magic impart,
Just a touch of that golden twine;
O stay, I would know if mortal ye art,
Twin sisters of beauty divine.
O where is your Eden of love and of rest?
I ask you again and again;
Nay, think not that I would ever molest,
Or sever your golden rein.
Long may it bind, may it ever unite
Twin hearts ever pure as to-day;
Till linked by a cord, more precious and bright,
To heaven, for this would I pray.
I ask you again and again;
Nay, think not that I would ever molest,
Or sever your golden rein.
Long may it bind, may it ever unite
Twin hearts ever pure as to-day;
Till linked by a cord, more precious and bright,
To heaven, for this would I pray.