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Two In One

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Were thou and I the white pinions         On some eager, heaven-born dove,         Swift would we mount to the old dominions,         To our rest of old, my love!         Were thou and I trembling strands         In music's enchanted line,         We would wait and wait for magic hands         To untwist the magic twine.         Were we two sky-tints, thou and I,         Thou the golden, I the red;         We would quiver and glow and darken and die,         And love until we were dead!         Nearer than wings of one dove,         Than tones or colours in chord,         We are one--and safe, and for ever, my love,         Two thoughts in the heart of one Lord.

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