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Or will as years shall run their circles round,
Which, since was lost the primal Paradise,
Have checkered all the mortal lot of men.

  Home, 'tis to heaven's wise law we mortals owe
Thee and all thine. In the first Home was placed
Not Adam sole; with him the gentler Eve,
Woman, man's other self, in whom alone
His complement he finds. God called, 'tis said,
Not his, but their name, Adam, in the day
When He humanity complete had made.
E'er since, in thee, O wedded love, are laid
The deep foundations of domestic bliss;
With thee, through all the cycles, have been hid
Sweet springs of joy whence, like full streams, have flowed
Earth's pleasures that are likest those of heaven.
For what is heaven save innocence and love
Inseparable—in mystic life combined?—
The sympathy of hearts that throb and glow
With love's quick impulse; and harmonious beat,