Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-12-21

When she heard his lordly offer,
And she answered, Name the day.
Still she toyed with pleasures idle;
But beneath her eyelids meek,
While she waited for her bridal,
Dwell thought she did not speak.
Came the bridal time and persisted,
AS all other bridals do
Breaking ties from childhood cherished,
Forming links untried and new;
And the honeymoon departed,
And the bride was in her home,
Where the old wife broken hearted,
Felt life's gathering twilight CLEAN.
And she knew the poor wife's story,
And she felt the iron cold,
That, through worship of its glory.
That poor heart had died 10 hold;
And the unspoken thought in slumber,
Meath her downcast eyelids lay,
AS to his forbidden chamber,
Swept her stately form away.
At her coming, up he started,
And the question, Why is this =
From his flashing eyes was darted,
But she stilled it with kiss =
L am weary, said she, lightly,
And the Madden band is here
Crowds have thronged to hear them nightly
Let them, too, our spirits cheer
Offhe shook her fond caressing,
With a crushed word on his lips,
Sounding like left hand blessing
Let who will such pleasures sip;
But my ears endure no screeching.
Since / came from DER the sea-
T. she said, have missed your teaching,
And their music pleases me.
These wide halls are still and lonely,
was used to joy, you know;
If it be TO please me, only,
You will not refuse to GO.
Never It's dissipation
That l can't at all afford.
Home is woman's proper station,
And obedience to her lord =
well excuse me, but thought that
Since we twain were bound for life,
You might think that you, yourself, were
Proper Escort for your wife.
But my cousin Belle is waiting,
With her brother Charles, below
They have promised me their escort.
If you do not choose to CO.
Still he stood, with eyes dilating,
Watching where she swept away
Thinking of those friends in waiting,
And her duty to obey;
Thinking how to spend the hours, he
Nightly spent with Maddern's band,
While at home he cOoped the heart that
He had chosen to command.
Then discretion got the better
OF his ranking discomfort
AT the par!or door he met her,
Bowed his sovereign will and-went
Next time he was sterner, frmer;
She, unshrinking, calm, and proud,
Clad in lightly woven armor,
To no storm of wrath she bowed.
When he told her twas her duty,
If abroad he chose to roam,
To remain herself, and watch the
Current of events at home,
She could find the Judge and lady,
Or some priced and noted friend,
Ever waiting ever ready,
On her footsteps to attend.
So he raved. and chafed, and altered
Ne'er a whit her spirits calm;
From her lips her soft words fatered,
Cool as zephyrs-sweet as balm.
SO he raved. and chafed, and-yielded.
His commands ne'er met her ear
By partial deafness shielded,
When she choose, she could not hear.
Well he loved the admiration
That was yielded to his bride
Granted her at last her station,
AS a sharer Of his pride
And he learned, by slow degrees, to
See his tyrant acts with shame.
She could throw the light upon them,
Though he ne'er knew whence it came.
And his mood grew mild and kindly;
And she proved matrOn good.
But the things she did not choose, she
Never heard nor understood.