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Preludes	A
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I Frost in Harvest	B
The lover who across a gulf	C
Of ceremony views his Love	D
And dares not yet address herself	E
Pays worship to her stolen glove	D
The gulf o'erleapt the lover wed	F
It happens oft let truth be told	G
The halo leaves the sacred head	F
Respect grows lax and worship cold	G
And all love's May day promising	H
Like song of birds before they pair	I
Or flush of flowers in boastful Spring	H
Dies out and leaves the Summer bare	I
Yet should a man it seems to me	J
Honour what honourable is	K
For some more honourable plea	J
Than only that it is not his	K
The gentle wife who decks his board	L
And makes his day to have no night	M
Whose wishes wait upon her lord	L
Who finds her own in his delight	M
Is she another now than she	J
Who mistress of her maiden charms	N
At his wild prayer incredibly	J
Committed them to his proud arms	N
Unless her choice of him's a slur	O
Which makes her proper credit dim	P
He never enough can honour her	O
Who past all speech has honour'd him	P
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II Felicity	J
To marry her and take her home	Q
The poet painting pureness tells	R
Of lilies figures power by Rome	Q
And each thing shows by something else	S
But through the songs of poets look	T
And who so lucky to have found	U
In universal nature's book	T
A likeness for a life so crown'd	U
Here they speak best who best express	V
Their inability to speak	W
And none are strong but who confess	V
With happy skill that they are weak	W
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III Marriage Indissoluble	J
In heaven none marry Grant the most	X
Which may by this dark word be meant	Y
Who shall forbid the eternal boast	X
I kiss'd and kiss'd with her consent	Y
If here to Love past favour is	K
A present boast delight and chain	Z
What lacks of honour bond and bliss	A2
Where Now and Then are no more twain	Z
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The Epitaph	B2
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I	-
At Church in twelve hours more we meet	C2
This Dearest is our last farewell	J
Oh Felix do you love me Sweet	C2
Why do you ask I cannot tell	J
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II	-
And was it no vain fantasy	J
That raised me from the earth with pride	D2
Should I to morrow verily	J
Be Bridegroom and Honoria Bride	D2
Should I in simple fact henceforth	E2
Live unconditionally lord	L
Of her whose smile for brightest worth	F2
Seem'd all too bountiful reward	L
Incredible life's promise seem'd	G2
Or credible for life too great	H2
Love his own deity blasphemed	H2
And doff'd at last his heavenly state	H2
What law if man could mount so high	-
To further insolence set bars	I2
And kept the chaste moon in the sky	-
And bade him not tread out the stars	I2
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III	-
Patience and hope had parted truce	J2
And sun like Love obscured his ray	K2
With dazzling mists driven up profuse	J2
Before his own triumphant way	K2
I thought with prayer how Jacob paid	H2
The patient price of Rachel then	L2
Of that calm grace Tobias said	H2
And Sarah's innocent Amen	L2
Without avail O'erwhelming wealth	M2
The wondrous gift of God so near	N2
Which should have been delight and health	M2
Made heart and spirit sick and sere	N2
Until at last the soul of love	D
That recks not of its own delight	H2
Awoke and bade the mists remove	O2
And then once more I breathed aright	H2
And I rehears'd my marriage vow	P2
And swore her welfare to prefer	O
To all things and for aye as now	P2
To live not for myself but her	O
Forth from the glittering spirit's peace	Q2
And gaiety ineffable	J
Stream'd to the heart delight and ease	R2
As from an overflowing well	J
And orderly deriving thence	S2
Its pleasure perfect and allow'd	H2
Bright with the spirit shone the sense	S2
As with the sun a fleecy cloud	H2
If now to part with her could make	T2
Her pleasure greater sorrow less	V
I for my epitaph would take	T2
To serve seem'd more than to possess	V
And I perceiv'd the vision sweet	H2
Dimming with happy dew mine eyes	U2
That love and joy are torches lit	H2
From altar fires of sacrifice	V2
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IV	P2
Across the sky the daylight crept	H2
And birds grew garrulous in the grove	P2
And on my marriage morn I slept	H2
A soft sleep undisturb'd by love	P2

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