Title:

Facing pages [82-83]

Date:

18640322-18640323

Received (…) 2.00 At (…) expressed four packages money from Staff Office. (.) $1.00 Carrie E. Silkman (…) College (…) N.Y. (…) Providence, PA <Presentation of the Wedding Ring- Emblem of happiness, not bought or sold,- Love in the small but perfect circle trace,- And duty in its soft though strict embrace;- Plain, precious, pure, as best becomes the wife;- Yet firm to bear the frequent rubs of life.- Connubial love disdains a fragile toy,- Which rust can tarnish, or a touch destroy;- Nor much admires what courts the gen'ral gaze,- The dazzling diamond's meretricious blaze,- Thathides with glare the anguish of the heart- By nature hard, though polished bright by art.- More to my taste the ornament that shows- Domestic bliss, and without glaring flows.- Whose gentle pressure serves to keep the mind- To all correct, to one discreetly kind.- Of simple elegance, the unconscious charm,- The holy amulet to keep from harm,- To guard at once and consecrate the shrine:- Take this dear pledge; it makes and keeps thee mine.'>

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Collection:

Henry O. Nightingale diaries