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MY MONOGRAM.

WRITTEN IN ROME, JAN. 7TH, 1867.

I.

Circles of love and of pleasure,
 Barred by a cross of flame,
Unite, and divide, and measure
 The letters which form my name.

II.

The symbols are full and complete,
 Separate yet merged in the whole;
As life's bitter is blended with sweet,
 So the light and the dark in this scroll.

III.

In my fate has been sunshine and joy,
 Fair triumphs to heart and to brain;