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With beauty all suffused; that morn and eve,
Sun, moon, and stars, and ocean, lake, and stream,
Woods, hills, and fields, and all earth's features fair,
Seem as incarnadined with roseate hues,
And through the liquid air there seems to float
A glory, that intoxicates the soul
With dreamy bliss, and to the softened heart
Makes Nature's simplest, lowliest work divine.

  'Twas thus exultant and elate, that morn,
That Edward stood, with Mary at his side,
And from the casement gazed, with open heart
Drinking all sweetness from the radiant scene,
Through every sense; while in her beaming face
He saw reflected his own tranquil joy.
To both, on this their wedded life's first day,
With omens kind begun, ne'er looked before
The world so beautiful; ne'er God himself,
The Infinite Creator, seemed so good.
And while, with the ascending sun, went up
From off the dewy earth the morning mists,