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"Upon her heart, and wash away, "Like dust from the flowers, its stain of clay, "And win her back in her tears to heaven, "Pure, loved, and humble, and forgiven: "Yes! freed from the soil of her earthly thrall, "Her smile shall light up my starry hall!"

The moonlight is on a little bower, With wall and with roof of leaf and of flower, Built of that green and holy tree Which heeds not how rude the storm may be. Like a bridal canopy overhead The jasmines their slender wreathings spread, One with stars as ivory white, The other with clusters of amber light;