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- 0:02Speaker 1: There came a day at summer's full, entirely for me.
- 0:06Speaker 1: I thought that such were for the saints, where revelations be.
- 0:10Speaker 1: The sun, as common, went abroad. The flowers, accustomed, blew.
- 0:15Speaker 1: As if no soul the solstice passed, that maketh all
- 0:19Speaker 1: things new. The time was scarce profaned by speech. The
- 0:23Speaker 1: symbol of a word was needless as at sacrament, the
- 0:27Speaker 1: wardrobe of our Lord. Each was to each the sealed church.
- 0:31Speaker 1: permitted to commune this time, lest we too awkward show
- 0:35Speaker 1: at supper of the lamb. The hours slid fast as
- 0:39Speaker 1: hours will, clutched tight by greedy hands. So faces on
- 0:43Speaker 1: two decks look back, bound to opposing lands. And so,
- 0:48Speaker 1: when all the time had failed, without external sound, Each
- 0:52Speaker 1: bound the other's crucifix, we gave no other bond. Sufficient
- 0:57Speaker 1: troth that we shall rise, deposed at length the grave.
- 1:01Speaker 1: To that new marriage justified, through calvaries of love.