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DOUBT me, my dim companion!

Why, God would be content

With but a fraction of the love

Poured thee without a stint.

The whole of me, forever,

What more the woman can,—

Say quick, that I may dower thee

With last delight I own!

It cannot be my spirit,

For that was thine before;

I ceded all of dust I knew,—

What opulence the more

Had I, a humble maiden,

Whose farthest of degree

Was that she might

Some distant heaven,

Dwell timidly with thee!