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Whene'er mine eyes do my Amelia greet	A
It is with such emotion	B
As when in childhood turning a dim street	A
I first beheld the ocean	B
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There where the little bright surf breathing town	C
That shew'd me first her beauty and the sea	D
Gathers its skirts against the gorse lit down	C
And scatters gardens o'er the southern lea	D
Abides this Maid	E
Within a kind yet sombre Mother's shade	E
Who of her daughter's graces seems almost afraid	E
Viewing them ofttimes with a scared forecast	F
Caught haply from obscure love peril past	F
Howe'er that be	D
She scants me of my right	G
Is cunning careful evermore to balk	H
Sweet separate talk	H
And fevers my delight	G
By frets if on Amelia's cheek of peach	I
I touch the notes which music cannot reach	I
Bidding Good night	G
Wherefore it came that till to day's dear date	J
I curs'd the weary months which yet I have to wait	J
Ere I find heaven one nested with my mate	J
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To day the Mother gave	K
To urgent pleas and promise to behave	K
As she were there her long besought consent	L
To trust Amelia with me to the grave	K
Where lay my once betrothed Millicent	M
For said she hiding ill a moistening eye	N
Though Sir the word sounds hard	O
God makes as if He least knew how to guard	O
The treasure He loves best simplicity	D
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And there Amelia stood for fairness shewn	C
Like a young apple tree in flush'd array	P
Of white and ruddy flow'r auroral gay	P
With chilly blue the maiden branch between	C
And yet to look on her moved less the mind	Q
To say How beauteous than How good and kind	Q
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And so we went alone	C
By walls o'er which the lilac's numerous plume	R
Shook down perfume	R
Trim plots close blown	C
With daisies in conspicuous myriads seen	C
Engross'd each one	C
With single ardour for her spouse the sun	C
Garths in their glad array	P
Of white and ruddy branch auroral gay	P
With azure chill the maiden flow'r between	C
Meadows of fervid green	C
With sometime sudden prospect of untold	S
Cowslips like chance found gold	S
And broadcast buttercups at joyful gaze	T
Rending the air with praise	T
Like the six hundred thousand voiced shout	U
Of Jacob camp'd in Midian put to rout	U
Then through the Park	V
Where Spring to livelier gloom	R
Quicken'd the cedars dark	V
And 'gainst the clear sky cold	S
Which shone afar	W
Crowded with sunny alps oracular	W
Great chestnuts raised themselves abroad like cliffs of bloom	R
And everywhere	W
Amid the ceaseless rapture of the lark	V
With wonder new	C
We caught the solemn voice of single air	W
Cuckoo	C
	-
And when Amelia 'bolden'd saw and heard	X
How bravely sang the bird	X
And all things in God's bounty did rejoice	Y
She who her Mother by spake seldom word	X
Did her charm'd silence doff	Z
And to my happy marvel her dear voice	Y
Went as a clock does when the pendulum's off	Z
Ill Monarch of man's heart the Maiden who	C
Does not aspire to be High Pontiff too	C
So she repeated soft her Poet's line	C
By grace divine	C
Not otherwise O Nature are we thine	C
And I up the bright steep she led me trod	A2
And the like thought pursued	B2
With What is gladness without gratitude	B2
And where is gratitude without a God	A2
And of delight the guerdon of His laws	C2
She spake in learned mood	B2
And I of Him loved reverently as Cause	D2
Her sweetly as Occasion of all good	E2
Nor were we shy	N
For souls in heaven that be	D
May talk of heaven without hypocrisy	D
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And now when we drew near	W
The low gray Church in its sequester'd dell	F2
A shade upon me fell	F2
Dead Millicent indeed had been most sweet	A
But I how little meet	A
To call such graces in a Maiden mine	C
A boy's proud passion free affection blunts	G2
His well meant flatteries oft are blind affronts	G2
And many a tear	W
Was Millicent's before I manlier knew	C
That maidens shine	C
As diamonds do	C
Which though most clear	W
Are not to be seen through	C
And if she put her virgin self aside	H2
And sate her crownless at my conquering feet	A
It should have bred in me humility not pride	H2
Amelia had more luck than Millicent	M
Secure she smiled and warm from all mischance	G2
Or from my knowledge or my ignorance	G2
And glow'd content	L
With my some might have thought too much superior age	I2
Which seem'd the gage	I2
Of steady kindness all on her intent	L
Thus nought forbade us to be fully blent	L
	-
While therefore now	C
Her pensive footstep stirr'd	L
The darnell'd garden of unheedful death	J2
She ask'd what Millicent was like and heard	L
Of eyes like her's and honeysuckle breath	J2
And of a wiser than a woman's brow	C
Yet fill'd with only woman's love and how	C
An incidental greatness character'd	L
Her unconsider'd ways	G2
But all my praise	G2
Amelia thought too slight for Millicent	L
And on my lovelier freighted arm she leant	L
For more attent	L
And the tea rose I gave	K
To deck her breast she dropp'd upon the grave	K
And this was her's said I decoring with a band	L
Of mildest pearls Amelia's milder hand	L
Nay I will wear it for her sake she said	L
For dear to maidens are their rivals dead	L
	-
And so	G2
She seated on the black yew's tortured root	L
I on the carpet of sere shreds below	G2
And nigh the little mound where lay that other	W
I kiss'd her lips three times without dispute	L
And with bold worship suddenly aglow	G2
I lifted to my lips a sandall'd foot	L
And kiss'd it three times thrice without dispute	L
Upon my head her fingers fell like snow	G2
Her lamb like hands about my neck she wreathed	L
Her arms like slumber o'er my shoulders crept	L
And with her bosom whence the azalea breathed	L
She did my face full favourably smother	W
To hide the heaving secret that she wept	L
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Now would I keep my promise to her Mother	W
Now I arose and raised her to her feet	L
My best Amelia fresh born from a kiss	G2
Moth like full blown in birthdew shuddering sweet	L
With great kind eyes in whose brown shade	L
Bright Venus and her Baby play'd	L
	-
At inmost heart well pleased with one another	W
What time the slant sun low	G2
Through the plough'd field does each clod sharply shew	C
And softly fills	G2
With shade the dimples of our homeward hills	G2
With little said	L
We left the 'wilder'd garden of the dead	L
And gain'd the gorse lit shoulder of the down	C
That keeps the north wind from the nestling town	C
And caught once more the vision of the wave	K
Where on the horizon's dip	K2
A many sailed ship	K2
Pursued alone her distant purpose grave	K
And by steep steps rock hewn to the dim street	L
I led her sacred feet	L
And so the Daughter gave	K
Soft moth like sweet	L
Showy as damask rose and shy as musk	L2
Back to her Mother anxious in the dusk	L2
And now Good night	L
Me shall the phantom months no more affright	L
For heaven's gates to open well waits he	D
Who keeps himself the key	D

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