My mother's sister, mother of my love,

Who had a twofold claim upon my heart,

One twofold mightier than the other was,

In giving so much beauty to the world,

And so much wealth as God had charged her with,

Loathing to put it from herself for ever,

Crown'd with her highest act the placid face

And breathless body of her good deeds past.

So we were born, so orphan'd. She was motherless,

And I without a father. So from each