My Laura, my love, I behold in thine eyes <br />Twin daystars that Mercy has given, <br />To teach me on earth to be happy and wise <br />And guide me triumphant to heaven. <br /> <br />Their lessons of love thro' a lifetime have taught <br />My bosom the pureness of thine, <br />They have roused me to virtue, exalted my thought, <br />And nerved me for glory divine: <br /> <br />They have shed on my heart a delightful repose, <br />All else it hath barr'd from its portal, <br />So deeply the stream of my happiness flows, <br />I know that my soul is immortal.<br /><br />Martin Farquhar Tupper<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/laura-from-petrarch/
