Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1835-05-14
POETRY.
(From the London Metropolitan.
TIE UNEQUAL MARRIAGE.
BY MRS. ABDY.

BY MRS. ABBY.
"Joy-joy to the young and happy pir,
The youth is learned, the maiden fair.
They are rich in friends, and in gold aud lands,
And love has united their willing hands"
Thus the smiling world in its sentence passed;
But the honey moon has ceased to last,
And already contending views divide
The wcaried bridegroom and sullen BRIDE.
From whence can such earthly joys proceed?
Alas! the riddle TOO well read:
They share no feelings or thoughts in kind,
They are not linked in the chains of mind.
lie has name and glory won,
Genius exults in her gifted son;
And she is souIless, and weak and vain,
A cold, light daughter Of Fashions train.
lie loves to gather from Learnngs store
The treasures Of scientific lore;
Or trace the deeds Of former oge
In the classic historic page:
And oft when the poets strain beguiles,
lie ventures to seek the muses. smiles,
And the Tyre Of few can boast tone
So sweet and so perfect as his own.
She to light trihes devotes her hours,
Weaves in gay garlands her greenhouse flowers
Turns over the leaves of a vain romance,
Then bends on the mirror heightened glance;
Perchance devising some art Of dress
To heighten her native loveliness,
At the welcome time when, observed Of all,
She shines in the bright and crowded hall.
His speech and his actions bear impress
OF the calm deep power of holiness;
In the earliest spring tide Of his days,
lie sought not Pleasures delusive ways;
And though votive crowds his steps pursue,
His spirit is like the sunhowor true
To earthly objects it is not given,
But it rests It's steadast gaze on Heaven.
No thoughts sublime in her mind have birth,
Her hopes, her wishes, arc all of earth;
She hears him dwell upon holy themes,
AS though his speech were Of tabled dreams,
Oh! the gifted feel pang intense,
When they lavish their burning eloquence,
TO meet with the careless cold reply,
Ofhardened and heartless levity.
What marvel then that his steps he bends
To the quiet hearths Of congenal friends;
Or seeks discourse with the wise and good
In his study's peaceful solitude;
She feels no joy at his coming tread,
But turns in disquieiude and dread
From the powers his varied speech displays,
To hang on coxcombs lispng praise.
Ye sons Of mind, will my word avail
Will ye study the moral of my tale'
Ye are raised above common race
Descend not then from your starry place,
TO choose bride from grovelIing sphcre,
Who will shrink from your talents in servile fear,
Ye must shadow your gIories from her sight,
Lest, like Psyche, she died in u blaze Of light.
Your welded bliss can be found alone
In her whose genius prize your own,
Your taste improve, and your thoughts inspire,
With kindred spirit and answering fire:
The world may extol your honored name,
And bind your brows with the wreath of fame,
But its praise is light the Ocean foam,
Compared TO the kindly words of home.
knowledge may surely some skill impari,
10 teach you to read the human heart;
Oh! then combine, in your choice for life,
The enlightened friend and devoted wife;
Ono who with glad, exuItng glow,
Will share yonr triumph and fame below,
But with bolier fervor and deeper love,
Assist your steps TO world above