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If ever two were one, then surely we.
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“If ever two were one, then surely we.”

Anne Bradstreet

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To My Dear and Loving Husband
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1678
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Meaning of “If ever two were one, then surely we.”

Bradstreet opens with a compact assertion of marital unity, setting up a poem that measures the value of mutual love against material wealth and even mortality.

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“To My Dear and Loving Husband,” posthumously published in the 1678 second edition of Several Poems; represented by Representative Poetry Online. The poem is a Puritan-era personal love lyric with explicitly religious closing language.

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