MARRIAGE.
There is no one more lovely in tins life, more full of the divine courage, than when a young maiden from her past life, from licr happy childhood, when she rambled over every field and moor around her home; when a mother anticipated her wants and soothed her little cares, when brothers and sisters grew from merry playmates to loving trusting friends; from Christmas gathering* and romps, the summer festivals in bower or garden ; from the rooms sanctified by the death of relatives ; from the secure backgrounds of her childhood, and girlhood, and maidenhood, looks ont into the dark and unilluminated future away from all that, and yet nnterrified, undaunted, leans her fair cheek upon her lover's breast, and wispers, "Dear heart! I cannot see, but I believe. The past was beautiful, but the future I can trust— with thee !"
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Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 34, 18 July 1872, Page 3
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141MARRIAGE. Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 34, 18 July 1872, Page 3
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