And our hearts, like thy waters, be mingled in peace.”
This simile of friendly hearts blending together like waters is as old as
Sir John Suckling. Aglaura, act iv.
“Alas! we two
Have mingled souls more than two meeting brooks.”
Dryden. All for Love, act iii., sc. 3.
“We were so closed within each other’s breasts,
The rivets were not found that join’d us first,
That does not reach us yet,—we were so mixt
As meeting streams, both to ourselves were lost.”