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To be his wife! Calm all my soul is filling, A calm too deep for smiles--or even tears; A perfect trust to slumber subtly stilling My whilom doubts and fears.
Each little common thing to me seems rarer, My life each day becomes more dear to me; Love, am I fair? Ah, fain would I be fairer-- And yet more fair for thee.