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I thought of her not with that deep, Intensest memory love will keep More tenderly than life. To me     She was but as a dream of home,— One of those calm and pleasant thoughts That o'er the soldier's spirit come; Remembering him, when battle lours, Of twilight walks and fireside hours. I came to thy bright when The task of blood was done: I saw thee! Had I lived before? Oh, no! my life but then begun. Ay, by that blush! the summer rose Has not more luxury of light! Ay, by those eyes! whose language is     Like what the clear stars speak at night,