Poems (Toke)/Sonnet (Our wedding day! how swift that sound can bring)
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UR wedding day! how swift that sound can bring A 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 dayWe 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 meThy love can brighten all that seems most dark; The lot thou sharest never dim can be.O that each future year in mercy givenMay find our hearts still joined on earth, but fixed in heaven!
SONNET.
UR wedding day! how swift that sound can bring A 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 dayWe 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 meThy love can brighten all that seems most dark; The lot thou sharest never dim can be.O that each future year in mercy givenMay find our hearts still joined on earth, but fixed in heaven!E.
July 4, 1845.