Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE FAMILY: 9, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON


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First Line: These rings, o my beloved pair
Last Line: It I have kissed and blessed you both.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Family Life; Jewelry & Jewelers; Relatives


9

These rings, O my beloved pair,
For me on your brown fingers wear:
Each, a perpetual caress
To tell you of my tenderness.

Let -- at morning as ye rise
The golden topaz takes your eyes --
To each her emblem whisper sure
Love was awake an hour before.

Ah yes! an hour before ye woke
Low to my heart my emblem spoke,
And grave, as to renew an oath,
It I have kissed and blessed you both.





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