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A Beautiful Little Rhyme by Ella Wheeler Wilcox from her wee book "Poems of Cheer."
TO
MARRY OR NOT TO MARRY
A GIRL'S
REVERIE
Mother says, "Be in no hurry,
marriage often means care and
worry." Auntie says, with manner grave,
"Wife is a synonym for slave."
Father asks,
in tones commanding, "How does Bradstreet rate his
standing?"
Sister, crooning to her twins,
sighs, "With marriage care begins."
Grandma,
near life's closing days, murmurs, "Sweet are
girlhood's ways."
Maud twice widowed ("sod
and grass") looks at me and moans
"Alas!" They are six and I am one, Life
for me has just begun. They are older, calmer,
wiser; Age should aye be youth's
adviser.
They must know - and yet, dear me,
when in Harry's eyes I see All the world of love
there burning - on my six advisers
turning,
I make answer, "Oh, but Harry is
not like most men who marry. Fate has offered me
a prize, life with love means
Paradise. Life without it is not worth all
the foolish joys of earth".
So, in spite of all they say, I
shall name the wedding day.
A wonderful
little rhyme on what other than marriage
by;
Ella Wheeler Wilcox from a wee book called poems
of cheer, written prior to
1915.
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