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I saw thee on thy bridal day —
      When a burning blush came o’er thee,
Though happiness around thee lay,
      The world all love before thee:

And in thine eye a kindling light
      (Whatever it might be)
Was all on Earth my aching sight
      Of Loveliness could see.

That blush, perhaps, was maiden shame —
      As such it well may pass —
Though its glow hath raised a fiercer flame
      In the breast of him, alas!

Who saw thee on that bridal day,
      When that deep blush would come o’er thee,
Though happiness around thee lay;
      The world all love before thee.