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ENOCH ARDEN.
Then answer’d Annie; tenderly she spoke:
‘You have been as God’s good angel in our house.
God bless you for it, God reward you for it,
Philip, with something happier than myself.
Can one love twice? can you be ever loved
As Enoch was? what is it that you ask?’
‘I am content’ he answer’d ‘to be loved
A little after Enoch.’ ‘O’ she cried,
Scared as it were, ‘dear Philip, wait a while:
If Enoch comes—but Enoch will not come—
Yet wait a year, a year is not so long:
Surely I shall be wiser in a year:
O wait a little!’ Philip sadly said
‘Annie, as I have waited all my life
I well may wait a little.’ ‘Nay’ she cried
‘I am bound: you have my promise—in a year:
Will you not bide your year as I bide mine?’
And Philip answer’d ‘I will bide my year.’
‘You have been as God’s good angel in our house.
God bless you for it, God reward you for it,
Philip, with something happier than myself.
Can one love twice? can you be ever loved
As Enoch was? what is it that you ask?’
‘I am content’ he answer’d ‘to be loved
A little after Enoch.’ ‘O’ she cried,
Scared as it were, ‘dear Philip, wait a while:
If Enoch comes—but Enoch will not come—
Yet wait a year, a year is not so long:
Surely I shall be wiser in a year:
O wait a little!’ Philip sadly said
‘Annie, as I have waited all my life
I well may wait a little.’ ‘Nay’ she cried
‘I am bound: you have my promise—in a year:
Will you not bide your year as I bide mine?’
And Philip answer’d ‘I will bide my year.’
Here both were mute, till Philip glancing up
