Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1856-03-05
The Wife.
Finds mark the archer little meant;
There's may q word at random spoken.

Finds mark the archer little meant;
There's many q word at random spoken,
May sooths or wound aheart that's broken.
Many il the jest the young man is subject
to who does "a wooing co. and sometimes
even does he speak lightly of the ri%Veting
process of the heart which is to make him
whole but it is better to trife with height
ming. or a magazine of gunpowder, than to WOO
a termagant or a faithless one.
To be mistaken in the one we choose once
for all, to go with as in the journey of life
to take to the heart a fair one, and find
We have wed a charmer that sought US as a
prey-is to be regarded the dirsst calamity
that can befall a human being.
Human nature is like a landscape, plea
SAINT to look upon only in a certain light
and married life is like o picture fair and
beautiful, but with an ugly, implanted back,
that is sometimes turned to view.
The world is not all made up ~oflove, hope
and happiness neither is married life all a
honey moon and it is better to be true to
l nature, like painting a picture, than to de-
+, part too mueh from it for the sake Of effect.
The wife in the truest sense is but the
r part of nan. Each, separate, is but a frag
nsnt Of existence between which there is q
strong affinity, and which united they form
a whole. In chemistry we often see the
c combination Of ultimate elements forming %
body Of great strength but let adverse in
nueHcss be brought to bear and it crumbles
7 into dust. The tree, springs up from tho
union of individual particles, but strike d
-, blow at its heart and it withers, and the
=, winds strip it, and it totters and falls, t0
y moulder into earth. So too, If, when the
q ultimate elements of human existence have
been once united, the affinity between them
s. becomes weakened and they repel each othe,
III H. IL. ---
endure for a while the blast, but sooner OF
:. later. the heart will die out, hope will CEASE
40 to fad nutriment, aid vanish and desolatio1
will mark the spot where they once exista:!
How few Of those who are united in wed
lock ever enjoy the full measure of happines
that is melted out for their acceptance. TIL
"a. Affections spring up in good soil, but the,
he are not properly sultivated-where the Sol
is deepest, tares grow most speedily Tn
ne young wife is q tender plant, and needs tn
,a+ fostering care of every day devotion. Thi
SO is at her command. No one is more sure {
their reward. than the truly affectionate wifi
nd The husband cannot always be the lover b
Of profession he may be at heart-bst he hs
Of something else to do. How many a your
fer- wife mistakes this for indifference, and thr
nd opens her heart to the decoying words of t
artfultongue, andfnally mcditates-thougt
lat less Ol Ine CouScQuGuCe-IIIAG IL perhaps, 81
IF had chosen differently, it would have BET
I better. When one such thought as this h
entered the heart, love, hope and happine
our flee, and distrust, indifference or Jealous
= Of take their places the genial glow Of aEt
! It TONS fame is quenched, and the fresi
grows cold and cherries. 1t is hard to
Il Is kindle the fire that has once gore out up
,;cb the hearth stone of afectisn-the flame tt
is fed only by fuel from loving hearts-wh
these have grown cold and forbidding
vsrx Better, indeed would it have been that tt
nm had never met. Who does not say that
preventive is easier than the eure?' ]
7:1ss u the shea heart and the two + n isathe 't8fkk all
= must work out, unaided, the problem OF h
IN ~ niness or misery. The seeds of sorrsw n
III IL be sown with a light heart, but the harry
nnn1. must be reaped in bitter tears.
~ Hp% Show me the wife that is blind TO her
' = bands faults, and | will show you a ha
W." woman and a man who has less to ans
~. for than were even the truth believed.
ID IL If Ruth could say to her husbands mot
40 oa, Whittier thou goest | will go; ana "
n"s? thou lodgest I will lodge: thy people
z ma. thou diest will l die, and there will
:: = buried the Lord do 80 to me, and more
-, ~ sf ouqht but death part thee and me
those "uo "a Md hv hi. fort,
and uhCo her nusoanu a. o1o-nt;on vnon tho
eprive ouchS nIuiu oe = a.o ID of one aesh
.esd to whefe tue tweiu - nnd sorrow al;La
ritter of love- nope napplnos Su AIN IA 49, and :
sever snoulu w as - 80. ~. n,;nd onl
Of its ZION shoulu nesIt
and it ano Ior' eacn osi "A ora bold !
zion of anu now uea, usrt. the nnnainted =
4 1naum nm the picture, but let it not thus be pres
whore in your own dwelling, bat keep befor
are always that which is lovely and bea
, to our ABOVE ali shlngs mere OeioT.
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