GOLDEN WEDDING. 



THESE wedding bells for fifty years 

 Have rung alternate joys and knells 

 Till now our deepened love endears 



These wedding bells. 



These fifty years, dear wife, have brought 



Much more of happiness than tears, 

 While love has many lessons taught 

 These fifty years. 



Love taught us, dear, that hearts are worn 

 / Bywords and looks, as millstones wear ; 

 ) That burdens shared are easiest borne, 



Love taught us. dear. 



As years go by, with ruddier glow 



Shall Love adorn our sunset sky ; 

 And closer still our hearts shall grow, 

 3-^ ***** n . As years go by. 



SSf^ 



