Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CARMEN NUPTIALE, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN


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First Line: O happiest kalend in the count of time!
Last Line: The rim of time to god's eternal deeps!
Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Joy; Delight


O happiest kalend in the count of time!
I lift my voice to sing thy golden hour:
Of all thy circling sisters, from the prime
Of Eve's chaste nuptials in the sacred bower
Of paradisial innocence and love,
Than none less gracious shalt thou prove.
Thy brooding moment holds all future days,
As in the tender egg of nesting dove
Lies the sweet hope to-come, warmed by soft rays
From love's own heart, and only pleased to bring
Life to its joyous spring.
Mark this most blest amongst all time's compeers;
Of past pursuit the now accomplished goal,
The happier dawn that lights the wakened soul
To vaster regions in the round of years,
To larger hopes and dearer fears;
Till love outgrows all measured marge and leaps
The rim of time to God's eternal deeps!





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