A wife may-be, a mother she

In Hymen’s shrine recalls not now,

She first in hour, ah, not profane,

With me to Hymen learnt to bow.

Ah no!—Yet owned we, fused in one,

The Power which e’en in stones and earths

By blind elections felt, in forms

Organic breeds to myriad births;

By lichen small on granite wall

Approved, its faintest feeblest stir