SILVER WEDDING. 



ITS silver lining proves there must, 

 Behind the cloud, be sunlight shining ; 

 So love still shines, though cares incrust 

 Its silver lining. 



Have thou no fear of love s declining ! 



This quarter century of trust 

 Our homely ways has been enshrining ; 



And all the while, from dross and rust, 



A purer love has been refining, 

 Till \ve can never more distrust 



Its silver lining. 



