Show A 4 1 Elf TRI 1 G k TRIBUTE UTE BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL L WORDS A ADDRESSED DRESS D TO O PROSPECTIVE BRIDE Exquisite Thoughts and Harmonious Diction Diction Combined In This Gem of Poetic POet Fa-cy Fa Significance Fancy Significance of If Ceremony Cere Cere- mony moray at the Altar The following beautiful litter fetter was written several years ago by a gentleman gentleman gentleman gentle gentle- man to a bride on receiving her wedding wedding wed wed- t ding cards It is exquisitely ely fresh and original and full of poetry Though not intended for publication it found its way into print and we think it Is irk too much of a gem to be lost entirely I am holding some pasteboard in my hands Three stately plucking from the bush of ceremony I am gazing upon a card and a name name name-a a namo nama with which your gentle life began be be- gan gan-a gan a name with which your throbbing throbbing throbbing throb throb- bing heart was lost There was nothIng nothing nothing noth noth- ing strange about that card The maiden sign still looks from it calm and customary as it looked on many manya f a friendly visit as it lies on many a ai i formal basket I am gazing too upon a card where the nearer parent tells the world she will be at home one day and that is nothing new But there is another card whose mingling there puts a fiery tongue Into this speechless speechless speechless speech speech- less pasteboard enameling fate on common common pace place It tells us us s that feeling is maturing into destiny and that these cards are but the pale heralds of a coming crisis when a hand that has pressed friends' friends hands and plucked flowers flowers' shall close down on on him to whom she shall be friend and flower forever I I have sent you a few flowers to adorn the dying moments of your single single sin sin- gle life They are the gentle types of ofa ofa a delicate and durable friendship I They spring up by our side when others others oth oth- ers have deserted it and they will be be watching d over our our grave when those who s should should cherish i Cherish have forgotten forgotten forgotten for for- gotten us it seems meet to o me me that a past so calm and pure as a's yours ours should expire with a kindred sweetness sweetness' ab about ut it The flowers and music kind w friends and earnest words word's should consecrate consecrate con con- secrate the hour when a sentiment is T passing Into a sacrament The three great stages of our being be- be be being eing e- e ing are the birth the bridal the burial To th the first we bring only j weakness ss for the last ye ha have nothIng nothing noth noth- Ing but dust But here at the altar where life joins life the pair come r Y t throbbing up up to th the holy ol man whispering whisper whisper- ing the thed deep ep promise promis that arms each gr r 1 others other's heart to help on the life str g- g gle of care and duty ti y The b beautiful beautiful a w will ll be be there bo borrow borrow- oY tr f lug ing new beauty from the scene the theU 3 f f 1 U gay Zay and the fi frivolous they hey and t their c. c f t- t flounces will vill come to ga gaze o on on all its its ifs r. r k J v scattered thoughts pant for and ag age I will to the old words repeated re re- hear J totter up 2 r i peat d that that to their own lives live have t given diven the charm 1 Some gome will we weep p over it as as If It were th the tomb and nd some sone will laugh over It r as as s if it were were a Joke but two must 1 l stand by it for it is fate not fate not fun fun fun- fun fun- this everl everlasting sting locking of their lives f And Ana And ow now now can you rou yo you have it over over so many bended forms can you come down do at last to the fruH frugal fru fru- J H gal diet of a single heart 1 Hitherto yo you have hay been a clock to l. l giving your time to all the world Now ili you are are a watch buried burled in one particular par par- 11 titular bosom watching only his j r t breast marking only his hours and ticking only to to the beat of his heart heart- J where time and feeling shall be in uni uni- uni f t son son until th these e lower ties are lost in that higher wedlock where all hearts v are are united around that great central l heart of all o Hoping that calm sunshine may hallow kallow w your clasped hands I sink si- si len l o a signature h |