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My Husband's Birth-Day.
With these, our cottage home shines bright
As ever youthful fancy burned;
With these, advancing years grow light,
As toward the close the eye is turned;
With these, as birth-days come and fly,
We'll meet their dawning with a smile,
Nor give one backward look and sigh
For unreturning joys the while.
As ever youthful fancy burned;
With these, advancing years grow light,
As toward the close the eye is turned;
With these, as birth-days come and fly,
We'll meet their dawning with a smile,
Nor give one backward look and sigh
For unreturning joys the while.
While many a heart by death is torn,
Our home has never been bereft—
Lone and despairing thousands mourn—
Our dearest blessings have been left.
While lives, which once together ran,
By worse than death have been estranged,
The hearts of our loved household band,
Through all these years remain unchanged.
Our home has never been bereft—
Lone and despairing thousands mourn—
Our dearest blessings have been left.
While lives, which once together ran,
By worse than death have been estranged,
The hearts of our loved household band,
Through all these years remain unchanged.
Bless we the Father! every good
And perfect gift by Him is given,
He guides us safely in life's road,
To happier birth-day still in heaven.
For all the joy and sorrowing,
Which past and present years record,
For all the unseen future brings,
Through life and death—bless we the Lord.
And perfect gift by Him is given,
He guides us safely in life's road,
To happier birth-day still in heaven.
For all the joy and sorrowing,
Which past and present years record,
For all the unseen future brings,
Through life and death—bless we the Lord.
Glen-Echo Home, April 2d, 1859.
