Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, IN TWOS, by WILLIAM CHANNING GANNETT


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First Line: Somewhere in the world there hide
Last Line: Then two at the heart of all!
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


SOMEWHERE in the world there hide
Garden-gates that no one sees
Save they come in happy twos, --
Not in one, nor yet in threes.
But from every maiden's door
Leads a pathway straight and true;
Map and survey know it not, --
He who finds, finds room for two!
Then they see the garden-gates!
Never skies so blue as theirs,
Never flowers so many-sweet,
As for those who come in pairs.
Round and round the alleys wind:
Now a cradle bars the way,
Now a little mound, behind, --
So the two go through the day.
When no nook in all the lanes
But has heard a song or sigh.
Lo! another garden-gate
Opens as the two go by.
In they wander, knowing not;
"Five and twenty!" fills the air
With a silvery echo low,
All about the startled pair.
Happier yet these garden-walks:
Closer, heart to heart, they lean;
Stiller, softer, falls the light;
Few the twos, and far between.
Till, at last, as on they pass
Down the paths so well they know,
Once again at hidden gates
Stand the two: they enter slow.
Golden Gates of "Fifty Years,"
May our two your latchet press!
Garden of the Sunset Land.
Hold their dearest happiness!
Then a quiet walk again:
Then a wicket in the wall:
Then one, stepping on alone, --
Then two at the Heart of All!




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