A Wedding Time Poem

Courtship and then...
A Beautiful Wedding!

A humble cottage 'neath the hill,
Where children laugh and romp
at will –With parents' tender love
and care,How could their lives be
else than fair?Oh, let them all be
glad to-day,For swift the years
will pass away,And when they're
women grown, and men,'Twill
never be the same again.The
wedding bells may sweetly ring
,And glory be on everything;But
when one leaves the dear home nest,
'Tis lonelier for all the rest.And if they
one by one shall leave,How can the
parents help but grieve?All come and
go, and love – but then,'Tis never q
uite the same again.Ah, well! Perhaps
'tis better so, That deeper meanings
we may know.There is no loss, no grief,
no pain,That may not bring its own
sweet gain;And in that blessed land above,
There'll be again one home, one love,
Then one in heart, and one in name,
At last 'twill ever be the same.

-Mrs. Frank A. Breck