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A SONNET OF SPOUSAL, by                    
First Line: Over the mountain hangs the hush of dawn
Last Line: And worship in its holy evening hour!
Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Maturity; Nature; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Weddings; Husbands; Wives


OVER the mountain hangs the hush of dawn,
Irresolute to be or cease to be;
The mist-bathed valley and each lonely tree
Stretch motionless, as on a canvas drawn;
Afar, ahark, a flight-arrested fawn
Stands tense, th' eternal sacrament to see—
The quickened sky, that pulses tremblingly
Till red with day's-blood lighting hill and lawn.

So is it with the love that's born in me:
Silent it waited, wavered; risen now,
The sky of life it climbs with steady power;
Sweetheart, its day is ours. Oh, may we see
Together its high noon, together bow
And worship in its holy evening hour!





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