p. 9 | SWEETHEARTS AND WIVES by Anon.

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 28, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 22.

SWEETHEARTS AND WIVES.

By Anon.

If sweethearts were sweethearts always, Whether as maid or wife, No drop would be half so pleasant In the mingled draft of life.

But the sweetheart has smiles and blushes When the wife has frowns and sighs, And the wife's have a wrathful glitter For the glow of the sweetheart's eyes.

If lovers were lovers always, The same to sweetheart and wife, Who would change for a future Eden The joys of this checkered life?

But husbands grow grave and silent, And care on the anxious brow Oft replaces the sunshine that perished With the words of the marriage vow.

Happy is he whose sweetheart Is wife and sweetheart still; Whose voice, as of old, can charm him; Whose kiss, as of old, can thrill;

Who has plucked the rose to find ever Its beauty and fragrance increase, As the flush of passion is mellowed In love's unmeasured peace;

Who sees in the step a lightness; Who finds in the form a grace; Who reads an unaltered brightness In the sweetness of the face.

—Anon.