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FIDELITY IN MISFORTUNE. 
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WALL FLOWER. 
Cheiranthus Cheiri. 
Language — FIDELITY IN MISFORTUNE. 
And those dear eyes have shone through tears, 
But never looked unkind; 
For shattered hopes and troubled years 
Still closer seem to bind 
Thy pure and trusting heart to mine. 
Not for thyself didst thou repine, 
But all thy husband’s grief was thine, 
My beautiful, my wife ! 
When all without looks dark and cold, 
And voices change their tone, 
Nor greet me as they did of old, 
I feel I am not lone; 
For thou, my love, art aye the same, 
And looks and deeds thy faith proclaim; 
Though all should scorn, thou wouldst not blame, 
My beautiful, my wife ! 
Anon. 
But the stars, the soft stars! When they glitter above us, 
I gaze on their beams with a feeling divine; 
For, as true friends in sorrow more tenderly love us, 
The darker the heaven, the brighter they shine. 
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