“I drew my bride, beneath the moon,
Across my threshold; happy hour!
But, ah, the walk that afternoon
We saw the water-flags in flower!”

—  Coventry Patmore

Book I, Canto VIII, III The Spirit's Epochs.
The Angel In The House (1854)

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