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Though dimm'd her eye'a bright azure,
And dimm'd her Lair'a young gold:
The love in her girlhood plighted
Baa nner grown dilu nor old.They .at in ~ in the aunahine,
Till the day wae al.moat done;
ADd then, at ita close, an angel
Stole over the tbreebold...tone.He folded their banda tor.tber-
He toneb'd their eyeli a with balru;
ADd their l.ut breeth f!06l.ed upward,
Like the cloee of a eolemn pUJm.Like a bridal pair they tl"anr-'.
The unseen, ruyl!tic:al road,
That lead& to the beauill'ul city,(^11) Whoee bnilder and ruaker i.a God."
Perhape in tb~tt miracle country
Tl1ey will give her !oat youth back;
.Anti the flow en of a vanieh'd epriog-time
Will Lloom in the epirit'a traCk.
One draught from the living watere
Shall call back his mnnhooo'a prime;
AD•l eternal yean shall meuure
The love that outlived time.
Bat the ehpes that they len behind them,
The wrinkles and silver hair 1
Made holy w UJI by the ki.ee
The angel ba.d )•rioted there,
'V'e will hide nray 'neath the willow•,
When the day ia low in the weet ;
Where the sunbeams cannot find them,
Nor the winds disturb their reet.
And we'll suffer no tell-tale tombetone,
With it3 age and date, to ri&e
O'er the two who are old uo longer,
Iu the Father'a hou&e in the ekica.