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376 FKIENBS AGAIN*
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LXVIIL—FRIENDS AGAIK
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So, we meet again, fair cousin ! fourtee...
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376 Fkienbs Again*
376 FKIENBS AGAIN *
Lxviil—Friends Agaik
LXVIIL—FRIENDS AGAIK
So, We Meet Again, Fair Cousin ! Fourtee...
So , we meet again , fair cousin ! fourteen years have changed us though !
I can meet your eyes now , cousin , with a calm unfaltering brow : I can take your hand in mine—ah ! its thrilling touch is gone !
And your voice that speaks kind greeting , what has quenched its magic tone ? You will be a bride next month—may all happiness attend you !
And the peace that I have found , I will pray our God to send you ; It was kind to come and see me in my hour of grief and gloom ,
Though you never knew the presence that once glorified this room . To your eye that couch is empty ; but I see a gentle face
Smiling on us , bright and trustful , from its long-accustomed place ! Yes , I had no secrets with her , all that I liad felt and done ,
Long ago she knew—my darling ! for her soul and mine were one . Ah , since you and I , fair cousin , parted fourteen years ago ,
I have passed through gulfs of anguish , you , I trust , may never know ; Doubtless , it was right and easy to refuse my boyish heart ;
In the bitterness that followed , yon , my cousin , had no part . And you never knewnor will knowwhat I suffered—let it pass !
, , Your heart is clear from those sad memories , and your eyes too—clear as glass I Yet I think you must remember , something of those olden times ,
And the words that passed between us , underneath the Plampstead limes . Wellthey are not worth recalling ; we were then but girl and boy ,
, Now we ' re friends again , for you , the world lias still some flowers of joy ; Pluck them , cousin , ere they wither ; taste their sweetness while you may :
They are flowers that fade too soon—already mine have passed away .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1864, page 376, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021864/page/16/
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