Not Two, but One.
Till life be gone.
Numbers, vi. 24, 25, 26.
In its circular continuity, the ring was accepted as a type of eternity, and, hence, the stability of affection.
Constancy and Heaven are round,
And in this the Emblem’s found.
This is love, and worth commending,
Still beginning, never ending.
Or, as Herrick says,—
And as this round