<h2><SPAN name="TRIUMPH" id="TRIUMPH"></SPAN>TRIUMPH.</h2>
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<span class="i0"><span class="dropcap">T</span>HE sky, grown dull through many waiting days,<br/></span>
<span class="i2a">Flashed into crimson with the sunrise charm,<br/></span>
<span class="i2">So all my love, aroused to vague alarm,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Flushed into fire and burned with eager blaze.<br/></span>
<span class="i0">I saw thee not as suppliant, with still gaze<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Of pleading, but as victor,—and thine arm<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Gathered me fast into embraces warm,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">And I was taught the light of Love's dear ways.<br/></span></div>
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<span class="i0">This day of triumph is no longer thine,<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Oh conqueror, in calm exclusive power.—<br/></span>
<span class="i0">As evermore, through storm, and shade, and shine,<br/></span>
<span class="i3">Your woe my pain, your joy my ecstasy,<br/></span>
<span class="i2">We breathe together,—so this blessed hour<br/></span>
<span class="i3">Of self-surrender makes my jubilee!<br/></span></div>
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