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The Silver Wedding

The Silver Wedding image
Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
February
Year
1880
Copyright
Public Domain
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Com wife, Bit hore, and we'll rest awhüe, TUI the merry dance 19 o'er; Our silver wedding has made me reel As if youth were mine once more. .. ve quite forgotten my flfty years; StYwêrrty-nvê yeare Save come and gone Since I loved and wedded you? Our dauffhter there- God Mess tho childl For she carnes bermother's face; Just so you looked when you won myheart With your innocent rirlish (frace. How fair she is ! What ? bless my soul I Wifp. whai is thilt you say? Our Uttle glrl hns g-iven her heart To that rascal"- young John Grey? Conxed mother to teil me, did she, eh? v,il. wife, it never can be; ril oever consent- you uear me, wife? Just teil her that for me. What is it you ask? " If long ago Your father had answered nay, What would I have done?" H m, weU, I think I'd have- married you anyway Judee John by myself," you say? Ah,weU The boy's a good fellow enough; I5ut I don't encourafte this f alling m lovo, And this oourtlng, and all such stuff. What is it you ask me? " Havo I cmooyed This silver wedding?" Thcre, there? When a woman attacks the weak side of a man, The irame- is hardly fair. WeU, because ot silver wedding, wife, (Dear, dear, how tast time fliesl) I c-m't say no to the child we love, The ïirl with her mother's eyes. So here's a kiss tor tho bride you were. And ono for the wife you are. And another to orowD this happy nifiht, r# „-i!!..}, víiii iirii the briorhtcst star.

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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Argus