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HUSBAND AND WIFE, by                    
First Line: While other women's husbands ride
Last Line: We'll trudge along and sweetly talk
Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives


Wife
While other women's husbands ride
Along the road in proud array,
My husband up the rough hillside
On foot must wend his weary way.

The grievous sight with bitter pain
My bosom fills, and many a tear
Steals down my cheek, and I would fain
Do aught to help my husband dear.

Come! take the mirror and the veil,
My mother's parting gifts to me;
In barter they must sure avail
To buy a horse to carry thee!

Husband
And I should purchase me a horse,
Must not my wife still sadly walk?
No, No! though stony is our course,
We'll trudge along and sweetly talk.







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