ONLY TEN YEARS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VII, Issue 10, 7 March 1891, Page 9

ONLY TEN YEARS.

Only ten years of joys and tears— It seems not very long— Only ten years of hopes and fears That to my memory throng; And as you are standing again at my side, So fair and so young, my bonnie bride, Now breaks from my heart this song : Only ten years of joys and tears, Of merry and cloudy weather, Have blended our lives together, my love, Have welded our hearts together. So we’ll dream once again of the happy days when We timidly stood in the morning With hearts full of love, with the blue skies above. And roses our garden adorning. And now you are standing again at my side, So fair and so young, my bonny bride. With roses our pathway adorning. < Inly ten years of joys and tears, And the tears into pearls are turning ; Only ten years of hopes and fears, And now a sweet incense is burning On the altar of Love, whose diadem Now shimmers and glistens with many a gem Of sanctified sorrow and yearning. • Inly ten years of joys and tears, Of merry and cloudy weather, Have blended our lives together, my love, Have welded our hearts together. < Inly ten years of hopes and fears ! Their passing was fleet, But their living was sweet In merry ami cloudy weather, my love. As we’ve journeyed along together.