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MY MONOGRAM.
WRITTEN IN ROME, JAN. 7TH, 1867.
I.
Circles of love and of pleasure,
Barred by a cross of flame,
Unite, and divide, and measure
The letters which form my name.
Barred by a cross of flame,
Unite, and divide, and measure
The letters which form my name.
II.
The symbols are full and complete,
Separate yet merged in the whole;
As life's bitter is blended with sweet,
So the light and the dark in this scroll.
Separate yet merged in the whole;
As life's bitter is blended with sweet,
So the light and the dark in this scroll.
III.
In my fate has been sunshine and joy,
Fair triumphs to heart and to brain;
Fair triumphs to heart and to brain;
