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PROPOSAL.
Since you have made my heart so large and grand,
And filled it with love's furniture complete,
Will you not deign to climb up by my hand,
And live in it forever, Mona, sweet?
And filled it with love's furniture complete,
Will you not deign to climb up by my hand,
And live in it forever, Mona, sweet?
O, come, and hold me with your arms so pale!
O, come, and fold me with your love so true!
The hall, the garden,—all the Cedar Dale
Is yours, and henceforth only mine through you.
O, come, and fold me with your love so true!
The hall, the garden,—all the Cedar Dale
Is yours, and henceforth only mine through you.
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POSTSCRIPT.
Will you come and be my love, Mona!
My sweetheart, good and true?
I 've nothing in the great wide world
To live for,—only you.
My sweetheart, good and true?
I 've nothing in the great wide world
To live for,—only you.
You shall be safe from ill, Mona!
As never wife has been;
The morning-glory by the door
Shall hardly dare look in;
As never wife has been;
The morning-glory by the door
Shall hardly dare look in;
And when my merry harvesters
The sheaves together bind,
They all shall bring to you, Mona,
The fairest flowers they find.
The sheaves together bind,
They all shall bring to you, Mona,
The fairest flowers they find.
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