1. She dropped everything she liked to become his wife.
2. But if she missed anything of her own life,
3. she never mentioned it except to the very deep Sea.
Can someone explain to me the second and third stanzas?
She rose to His Requirement
By Emily Dickenson
She rose to His Requirement, dropt
The playthings of her life
To take the honorable work
Of woman, and of wife.
If ought she missed in her new day
Of amplitude, or awe,
Or first Prospective, or the gold
In using wore away,
It lay unmentioned, as the Sea
Develop pearl, and weed,
But only to himself, be known
The fathoms they abide.
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