Poems (Curwen)/Joy
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Joy.
ON THE BIRTH OF A SON AND HEIR TO VICTOR CAVENDISH, ESQ., BORN MAY 7TH, 1895.
Sorrow and joy go hand in hand,
And it will be for ever so.
For life is like an April day:
Yesterday our eyes were dim
With tears of sorrow shed for him!
Now smiles are chasing tears away,
For joy has banished woe.
Our hope fulfilled, we bless the dawn,
The dawn of this most blessed day,
Whose happy eventide gave birth
To thee, beloved son and heir,
And gave unto thy parents dear
The sweetest of the joys of earth.
God's benison on their first-born!
And it will be for ever so.
For life is like an April day:
Yesterday our eyes were dim
With tears of sorrow shed for him!
Now smiles are chasing tears away,
For joy has banished woe.
Our hope fulfilled, we bless the dawn,
The dawn of this most blessed day,
Whose happy eventide gave birth
To thee, beloved son and heir,
And gave unto thy parents dear
The sweetest of the joys of earth.
God's benison on their first-born!