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SILVIA
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From calm beyond our inmost thoughtCame the girl-spirit, childly-wise;
From spaces of the blue she brought
This earnest candour of her eyes;
From heavenly fields her soul uprose,
By fateful impulse urged to roam,—
Looked on the wheeling worlds, and chose
Our love her magnet, Earth her home.
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Awhile, awhile these years shall flow,In these soft limbs her soul be pent,
Till Earth the lore of love and woe
Hath taught, and left her innocent:
Then fairer yet, then yet more dear
We hold our child in surer stay;—
What else was Love that lit us here
But glimmering dawn of deathless day?
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