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Ourselves were wed one
summer - dear -
Your Vision - was in June -
And when Your little Lifetime
failed,
I wearied - too - of mine -
And overtaken in the Dark -
Where You had put me down -
By Some one carrying a Light -
I - too - received the Sign -
'Tis true - Our Futures different
lay -
Your Cottage - faced the sun -
While Oceans - and the North must be -
On every side of mine
'Tis true, Your Garden led the
Bloom,
For mine - in Frosts - was sown -
And yet, one Summer, we
were Queens -
But You - were crowned in June -
'Tis little I - could care for Pearls -
Who own the Ample sea -
Or Brooches - when the Emperor -
With Rubies - pelteth me -
Or Gold - who am the Prince
of Mines -
Or Diamonds - when have I
A Diadem to fit a Dome -
Continual opon me -
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