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Oh, strong enough, since we were two,

To conquer the world, we thought!

The drivers drove us day by day;

We did not mind, we went one way

And no better a liberty sought.

In the sunny ground between the canes,

He said "I love you" as he passed:

When the shingle-roof rang sharp with the rains,

I heard how he vowed it fast:

While others shook, he smiled in the hut

As he carved me a bowl of the cocoa-nut

Through the roar of the hurricanes.

I sang his name instead of a song;

Over and over I sang his name—

Upward and downward I drew it along

My various notes; the same, the same!

I sang it low, that the slave-girls near

Might never guess from aught they could hear,

It was only a name.

I look on the sky and the sea—

We were two to love, and two to pray,—

Yes, two, O God, who cried to Thee,

Though nothing didst Thou say.

Coldly Thou sat'st behind the sun!

And now I cry who am but one,

How wilt Thou speak to-day?—