Prayer for a Bride’s House
She is tso young, dear Lord, so very young, She is so wide-eyed and naively sweet, She does not dream of great rooms, draped and hung With master paintings, rugs where some queen’s feet Have lightly trod. She dreams of this instead: A small, new house with freshly painted floors, With hand-stitched curtains, and above her head Bright dishes gleaming through wee cupboard doors. She’ll learn, some day, the value of old things, When eagerness is stiff, and she is wise— Knowing the disillusionment time brings— But now, (here’s so much springtime in her eyes, And this is her first house — Wbate’er You do, Let everything about it. Lord, be . . . new! —Christie Lujid in "Good Housekeeping.” ■
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 113, 6 February 1937, Page 21
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