Voice of the heart; a wife's love-offering . > Who on a Jijlers path Juch beamy brightnefs Jhed,Of Jpeech, bloom, joy, bereft mid fejlive hour ! Again, Jhe Jtood by Arnos placid wave,All trembling, awe-Jlruck, piercd and faint at heart,Dejpairing her fweet paradije to Jave ;The high-chargd hurricane had yet one dart! The Jlorm Jwept by, the Judden blajl,The lightnings, left her heart and foul unjcathd,Again in rapture to his breajl was clajpd,Again in floods of nuptial blijs Jhe bathd. And can it be the wife and mother blejl,That now looks back upon that chequerd Jcene,Serenely joyful, chaj

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Voice of the heart; a wife's love-offering . > Who on a Jijlers path Juch beamy brightnefs Jhed,Of Jpeech, bloom, joy, bereft mid fejlive hour ! Again, Jhe Jtood by Arnos placid wave,All trembling, awe-Jlruck, piercd and faint at heart,Dejpairing her fweet paradije to Jave ;The high-chargd hurricane had yet one dart! The Jlorm Jwept by, the Judden blajl,The lightnings, left her heart and foul unjcathd,Again in rapture to his breajl was clajpd,Again in floods of nuptial blijs Jhe bathd. And can it be the wife and mother blejl,That now looks back upon that chequerd Jcene,Serenely joyful, chajlend, not deprejsd,C?in Jhe that fair and cherijhd girl have been ? No father, mother, jijlers, live to cheerThe noontide Jultry gloom, or winters night;.

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