LAY OF THE SPINSTER.
Tell us not, in idle jingle, " marriage is an empty dream;" for the girl is dead i that's single, and things are not what they seem. Life is real, life is earnest, single blessedness a fib; " Man thou art, to man returneth," has been spoken of the rib. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, is our destined end or way, but to act that each to-morrow finds us nearer marriage-day; Life is long, and youth is fleeting, and our j hearts, though light and gay, still like pleasant drums are beating wedding marches all the day. In the world's broad field of battle, in the bivouac obi VOx» be not like dumb, driven cattle —be \s_., heroine—a wife*! Trust no future, how- *_ e'er pleasant; let the dead past bury its dead; act—act in the living present, hoping for a spouse ahead. Lives of married folks remind us we can live our lives as well, and, departing, leavebehind us such examples as will "tell"—such examples that another, wasting time m idle sport, a forlorn, unmarried brother seeing, shall take heart and court. Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart on triumph set; still contriving, still purauiagi and each one a husband get.
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Auckland Star, Volume III, Issue 727, 13 May 1872, Page 2
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