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February 10, 1867
...and now, love, you with the warm heart and loving eyes, whose picture
I kissed last night and whose lips I so often kiss in my dreams, whose
love enriches me so bountifully with all pleasant memories and sweet
anticipations, whose encircling arms shield me from so much evil and
harm, whose caresses are so dear and so longed for awake and in slumber,
making my heart beat faster, my flesh tremble and my brain giddy with
delight, - whose feet I kiss and whose knees I embrace as a devotee
kisses and embraces those of his idol, - my darling whose home is in my
arms and whose resting place my bosom, who first came to them as a
frightened bird but now loves to linger there till long after the
midnight chimes have uttered their warning, - my life, with your
generous soul, my heart's keeper and my true lover, - Good night: a good
night and a fair one to thy sleeping eyes and wearied limb, the
precursor of many bright, beautiful mornings when my kisses shall waken
thee and my love shall greet thee.
Lyman
Lyman Hodge, an American merchant to Mary Granger, his fiancee.
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