Tales of early loveTo sweethearts, wife, mother, native land, church, God . (26) Jiiit It was fortunate lor me and mine That my good angel had warm, healtliy blood. TALES OF EARLY LOVE. 27 Your eyes are asking if we ever Twas the most astounding mysteryOf all the numrous mystries of my lifeThat she consented to become my own,And link with loving courtesies her daysWith my obscure and lowly And worked imtiiingly in useful ways. - Near half a century of wedded bliss Has proved how happily the j)Oor may live. Loves, births, and deaths have visited our house, But hatreds have no

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Tales of early loveTo sweethearts, wife, mother, native land, church, God . (26) Jiiit It was fortunate lor me and mine That my good angel had warm, healtliy blood. TALES OF EARLY LOVE. 27 Your eyes are asking if we ever Twas the most astounding mysteryOf all the numrous mystries of my lifeThat she consented to become my own,And link with loving courtesies her daysWith my obscure and lowly And worked imtiiingly in useful ways. - Near half a century of wedded bliss Has proved how happily the j)Oor may live. Loves, births, and deaths have visited our house, But hatreds have not dared to enter in. Already half of our loved children stand On the bright shores of immortality. 28 TALES OF EARLY LOVE. Their beckning hands invite us to the skies,To share the glories of our upper guard and guide of my lifes pilgrimage

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