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I think that in the past, unheard, unseen,

All influences of the earth and air,

The gleam of water, and the forest’s green,

Have spun some cobweb sympathy between

Our hearts, now one in finding them so fair:

That every sunset taught us to prepare

For the pure dawn when Love was sure to rise;

That every cloud but made us more aware

That soon or late his sun would greet our eyes,

And all our heaven be cloudless and serene!

Else, how should we have come to understand

The perfect meaning of this perfect day?

How could this hour, unbidden and unplanned,

Bring in its train such infinite command

Of all the things we do not need to say?

It is too soon, mayhap, to trace the way

By which we came, guided by birds and flowers,

To the full knowledge of the joys of May:—

We can retrace the path in later hours,

And all our haunts revisit, hand in hand.