. How to be happy though married. Being a handbook to marriage . CHAPTER XXVII. LOVE SURVIVING MARRIAGE. Tl:ou leanest thy true heart on mine,And bravely bearest up !Aye mingling Loves most precious wine In lifes most bitter cup !And evermore the circling hours New gifts of glory bring ;^Ve live and love like happy flowers,All in our fairy ring. V\e have known a many sorrows, sweet! We have wept a many tears,And after trod with trembling feet Our pilgrimage of when our sky grew dark and w ild, All closelier did we cling ;Clouds broke to beauty as you smiled, Peace crowned our fairy r
. How to be happy though married. Being a handbook to marriage . CHAPTER XXVII. LOVE SURVIVING MARRIAGE. Tl:ou leanest thy true heart on mine,And bravely bearest up !Aye mingling Loves most precious wine In lifes most bitter cup !And evermore the circling hours New gifts of glory bring ;^Ve live and love like happy flowers,All in our fairy ring. V\e have known a many sorrows, sweet! We have wept a many tears,And after trod with trembling feet Our pilgrimage of when our sky grew dark and w ild, All closelier did we cling ;Clouds broke to beauty as you smiled, Peace crowned our fairy ring.—Mnss:y, jARRIAGE is sometimes said to be the doorthat leads deluded mortals back to earth; but thisneed not and ought not to be the case. Writingto his wife from the sea-side, where he had gonein search of health, Kingsley said : This placeis perfect; i, it seems a dream and imperfect without LOVE SURVIVING MARRIAGE. Blessed be God for the rest, though I never before felt thelonehness of being without the beloved being whose every lookand word and motion are the key-notes of my life. Peopletalk of love ending at the altar. . Fools ! Of course the enthusiastic tempestuous love of courting daysv;ill not as a rule remain. A married couple soon get to feeltowards each other very much as two chums at college, or twopartners in a business who are at the same time old and well-tried friends. Young married people often think that thosewho have been in the \\r-\y state of matrimony twenty orthirty years longer than theniselves are very prosy, unromantic,and by no means perfect examples of what married peopleought to be. We remind persons manifesting thisnewly-married intolerance of what an old minister of theChurch of Scotland once said to a young Scotch Dissentersvho was finding many faults—When your lum (chimney)has recked as long as ours perhaps it will have as muc
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