Have you not noted, in some family <br />Where two were born of a first marriage-bed, <br />How still they own their gracious bond, though fed <br />And nursed on the forgotten breast and knee?— <br />How to their father's children they shall be <br />In act and thought of one goodwill; but each <br />Shall for the other have, in silence speech, <br />And in a word complete community? <br />Even so, when first I saw you, seemed it, love, <br />That among souls allied to mine was yet <br />One nearer kindred than life hinted of. <br />O born with me somewhere that men forget, <br />And though in years of sight and sound unmet, <br />Known for my soul's birth-partner well enough!<br /><br />Dante Gabriel Rossetti<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-xv-the-birth-bond/
