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SONNET.
[Two golden links are added to the chain]
Two golden links are added to the chain,Dear Love, that binds our separate lives in one,
Two short-lived radiant children of the Sun,
Two years, brief years of mingled light and rain,
Have passed away, since thou and I begun
Our married life: and smiling Time, again,
Life's ductile ore with cheerful hand hath ta'en
To add one wonder more to what he hath done.
The Past, the Present,—Memories of the brain,
And the heart's living joys their bright course run;—
They have their links: and has the future none
Whereby to cling to 'mid its vast inane?
Fear not, dear Love, the fear were worse than vain,
Have we not two-a Daughter and a Son?
January, 1851.
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