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(He) put that which was most material in the postscript.
(He) put that which was most material in the postscript.
 A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. 
Eternal love and instant payment!  
 A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. 
Eternal love and instant payment! 
 And oft the pangs of absence to remove
 By letters, soft interpreters of love.  
 And oft the pangs of absence to remove
 By letters, soft interpreters of love. 
 Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor night stays these couriers 
from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.  
 Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor night stays these couriers 
from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. 
 I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had 
time to make it shorter.
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 I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had 
time to make it shorter.
 [Fr., Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parceque je n'ai pas 
eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.] 
 Messenger of sympathy and love,
 Servant of parted friends,
  Consoler of the lonely,
   Bond read more 
 Messenger of sympathy and love,
 Servant of parted friends,
  Consoler of the lonely,
   Bond of the scattered family,
    Enlarger of the common life. 
 Kind messages, that pass from land to land;
 Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history,
  In read more 
 Kind messages, that pass from land to land;
 Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history,
  In which we feel the pressure of a hand,--
   One touch of fire,--and all the rest is mystery! 
 Line after line my gushing eye o'erflow,
 Led thro' a said variety of woe:
  Now warm in read more 
 Line after line my gushing eye o'erflow,
 Led thro' a said variety of woe:
  Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom,
   Lost in a convent's solitary gloom! 
 Thy letter sent to prove me,
 Inflicts no sense of wrong;
  No longer wilt thou love me,--
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 Thy letter sent to prove me,
 Inflicts no sense of wrong;
  No longer wilt thou love me,--
   Thy letter, though is long.