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The Sun
The sun symbolizes the day-time. The speaker uses the sun to suggest that she loves her partner regardless of time and space, including by the natural light of the day.
Candle-Light
Candle-light symbolizes the evening. The speaker says that she loves her partner by the light of the sun (i.e., during the daytime hours) and by candle-light, suggesting that her love is constant and enduring.
Lost Saints
The lost saints to which the speaker alludes in Line 12 symbolize a wavering religious faith. The speaker says about her love, "I love thee with a love I seemed to lose /
With my lost saints" (11-12), suggesting that the religious faith she had in her childhood was eventually challenged or lost. She argues that her romantic love has miraculously restored that faith.
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