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TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 7. JOYS OF LIFE, by                    
First Line: It's a fine thing to live and to give life
Last Line: Which waits for you beyond the sepulchre.
Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


It's a fine thing to live and to give life,
By that, I mean to make your other self
(Whom you've acknowledged to the world as wife
And set above all thought of gold or pelf),
See in your presence all the hopes of years,
Read in your eyes your love and all love means,
Cherish the words with which you dry the tears
Which often on the face of woman gleams.

It's a fine thing to live, and when life's setting sun
Fades like the last blush o'er the western hills,
When gold and red give place to sombre dun,
When ocean deeps have swallowed shallow rills,
Then will the joys of life be judged in truth,
Then will you know that life you gave to her
Was the foundation of eternal youth,
Which waits for you beyond the sepulchre.





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