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She rose to his requirement, dropped / The playthings of her life / To take the honorable work / Of woman and of wife.
If aught she missed in her new day / Of amplitude, or awe, / Or first prospective, or the gold / In using wore away,
It lay unmentioned, as the sea / Develops pearl and weed, / But only to himself is known / The fathoms they abide.