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THE WEDDING ANNIVERSARY.
Swift the years have sped away
Since that bright mid-winter day,
Tremblingly in woman's pride,
I became thy happy bride.
Sped until they number nine,
Since my hand lay calm in thine;
Plighted there our mutual vow,
That together “I and thou.”
Since that bright mid-winter day,
Tremblingly in woman's pride,
I became thy happy bride.
Sped until they number nine,
Since my hand lay calm in thine;
Plighted there our mutual vow,
That together “I and thou.”
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In God's sight “till death should part,”
Hand in hand and heart to heart,
While He granted to us life,
Thence should live as “man and wife.”
Hand in hand and heart to heart,
While He granted to us life,
Thence should live as “man and wife.”
Orange blossoms crisp and fair,
Deftly crowned my raven hair;
Through the veil I could not see
What the future held for me.
Confident thy love was mine,
Cast my future lot with thine,
Judging thee of men the best,
Choose thee, yielding all the rest.
Deftly crowned my raven hair;
Through the veil I could not see
What the future held for me.
Confident thy love was mine,
Cast my future lot with thine,
Judging thee of men the best,
Choose thee, yielding all the rest.
In the rapid flight of years,
Mingled both with joy and tears,
Thus the years have passed away,
Like a fleeting April day.
Sometime sunshine, sometime rain,
Sometime joy and sometime pain,
No grave shadow or regret,
Hath our skies beclouded yet.
Mingled both with joy and tears,
Thus the years have passed away,
Like a fleeting April day.
Sometime sunshine, sometime rain,
Sometime joy and sometime pain,
No grave shadow or regret,
Hath our skies beclouded yet.
Could we lift the veil and see
What our future lives shall be;
Whether life be short or long,
Sorrow's wail, or pleasure's song,
Nay, while years shall onward sweep,
God his watch shall o'er us keep,
He our “Mizpah” e'er shall be,
Watching close 'twixt thee and me.
What our future lives shall be;
Whether life be short or long,
Sorrow's wail, or pleasure's song,
Nay, while years shall onward sweep,
God his watch shall o'er us keep,
He our “Mizpah” e'er shall be,
Watching close 'twixt thee and me.
So together thou and I,
As the years go sweeping by,
Calmly drifting with the tide,
Down life's stream will smoothly glide,
May the bliss of sweet content,
Rest with us till life is spent;
If I leave thee I will wait
For thee at the golden gate.
As the years go sweeping by,
Calmly drifting with the tide,
Down life's stream will smoothly glide,
May the bliss of sweet content,
Rest with us till life is spent;
If I leave thee I will wait
For thee at the golden gate.
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If my days outnumber thine,
By the will of power Divine,
Keep thou watch till I have come,
Safely to our heavenly home,
Where united we shall be,
Happy through Eternity.
By the will of power Divine,
Keep thou watch till I have come,
Safely to our heavenly home,
Where united we shall be,
Happy through Eternity.
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