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A MEETING.
I pray you kiss me once, my queen, to showThat all the past is merged in present bliss,
And kiss me twice to make more certain this,
And once again to signify the flow
The happy future undivided glow
Of Love; make each kiss keener than the last
To indicate the pallor of the past
Compared with rosy days we two shall know;
A kiss for present, future, past, for each
Was good; the past was lit by expectation
Striving across the waves of tribulation
Unto the present arms of hope to reach,
Sweet is the present, blessed beyond speech,
Sweeter each future than the former station.
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