Two lives made one, the man and wife
( A mystic thing to world of strife ),
Serenity of oneness, wholeness,
Repose of love as the law of life!
Uncaught by skill of painter's art,
There glows a radiance of the heart
In which the naked truth, as sculpture,
Is seen in colorless calm apart,—
A luminous calm of spiritual light,
Dissolving drop serene of sight
Oft gathering o'er the eye of reason,
And robing day in the folds of night.