a love rhapsody.
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We there shall bend before the jasper gate
And lay before God's feet one golden crown,—
I only know that then this heart of mine
Shall beat, beloved, in thine,
And thou and I be one!
And lay before God's feet one golden crown,—
I only know that then this heart of mine
Shall beat, beloved, in thine,
And thou and I be one!
It was a wondrous legend that which told,
That after bitter griefs the soul and love,
The Psyche and the Eros, should enfold
In one their truant wings—but far above
E'en that dear joy to know that, parted here,
We shall 'as seraphs there
Eternally be one!
That after bitter griefs the soul and love,
The Psyche and the Eros, should enfold
In one their truant wings—but far above
E'en that dear joy to know that, parted here,
We shall 'as seraphs there
Eternally be one!
Rome, 1852.
