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Had We Not Met.

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Had we not met, the brooding woe         And all the griefs that greater grow,             Might not have been, and happy-wise             Our lives have laughed with lullabies         And quaffed such joys as few may know.         Our days beneath embittered skies         Where anguish moans and sorrow cries,             Might not have wept and wandered so,             Had we not met!         But ah, my darling! All we prize,--         Love and sweet trust that never dies,             Wild yearnings that with constant flow             From kindred heart to bosom go,--         Would never in our souls had rise,             Had we not met!

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