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Show 110 MADELYN CANNON STEWART SILVER ness at all. He has a most remarkably sweet disposition, agree able and considerate in every way. I am very happily married." On one of these relaxed and peaceful days in Ogden, Madelyn composed another love poem to Harold that is light and radiant. In the form of an Italian sonnet, the poem compares their new love to a summer sunrise, with all the promise of a beautiful day. Morning is evoked through the singing of the birds and the sky's growing blue, which corresponds to the pleasure and beauty and freshness of the couple's love. The poem then imagines the pass ing day, when the rhythm of the morning birdsong beat into the lovers' hearts and sweetens their labors. The passage of a day is metaphor for the passage of the couple through life and the deepening of their love, which will last through the evening. The a lovers promise each other an affection as beautiful, constant, and enduring as nature. And the natural world seems to personify the expectancy awakening with their love. TO HAROLD You are my you. 0 Love, the thought of you Is like awaking to fresh summer dawn, To twittering of birds, that warble on The beauty of beginning; that faint blue Against my mountain's skyline is the hue And promise of new living; through the wan Chill air the breeze goes whispering, darkness gone. Life waits expectant for our sunrise true. Our new day is beginning with this song Of sweetly wakened earth-life; it shall beat Into the rhythm of our hearts, through all The labors of the morning, through the long Hot pleasance of the noonday. Faint and sweet It shall be mingled with the nightbirds' call. III Another milestone was reached in October 1929 when she realized she was pregnant: there is a long diary entry. She was |
