"Light household duties evermore inwrought With placid fancies of one trusting heart That lives but in her smile, and turns From Life's cold seeming, and the busy mart, With tenderness, that ever homeward yearns To be refreshed where one pure altar burns. Shut out from hence, the mockery of life— Thus liveth she content, the meek, fond, trusting wife."
Wives

January 1, 1970