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One morn I mark’d two dewdrops bright, Impendent on a thorny spray: The gems had caught my roving sight, Gay glittering in the sunny ray. A sudden breeze pass’d o’er the ground, And shook their faithless resting-place; They trembled—waver’d—with a bound, Commingled in a kind embrace, ’Tis thus, thought I, with loving hearts, When adverse storms sweep o’er their sky, In closer union, each imparts To each, aid, comfort, soothing joy. The mingled dewdrops by the sun Were cherish’d, then exhaled together: Thus virtuous love, on earth begun, Renew’d in Heaven, exists for ever.
One morn I mark’d two dewdrops bright, Impendent on a thorny spray: The gems had caught my roving sight, Gay glittering in the sunny ray. A sudden breeze pass’d o’er the ground, And shook their faithless resting-place; They trembled—waver’d—with a bound, Commingled in a kind embrace, ’Tis thus, thought I, with loving hearts, When adverse storms sweep o’er their sky, In closer union, each imparts To each, aid, comfort, soothing joy. The mingled dewdrops by the sun Were cherish’d, then exhaled together: Thus virtuous love, on earth begun, Renew’d in Heaven, exists for ever.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- George Taylor (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 186 · printed citation: George Taylor · subject: DEW
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