Love
Matrimony
From My Lyrical Life, Second Series (1889)
Love
Two human Stars in passing are
Attracted as through heaven they float;
Sometimes they form a double Star;
Sometimes they put each other out:
And sometimes one and one make three,
Our World's most perfect Trinity.
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Codex Note
From the section "Lyrics of Love" of My Lyrical Life, Second Series (1889).
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Massey, Gerald. “Matrimony.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/massey/242/.
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Massey, Gerald. “Matrimony.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/massey/242/.
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