The Portland daily press., 1862-11-24

e lOrulef slshii siiS lnc yeai vi thcA noi
age by the Rev. DIR. Nichols. As the Bride
I'd Groom took their places at the head OF
e table, their eyes rested on a cup containing
le hundred gold dollars, fifty for each, the
fts of two daughters residents of San Fran
SEQ, accompanying which was the annexed
.rse.
The care and love of our parents dear
We never can repay,
But golden kiss for every year
We send-sinee their wedding day.
After an eloquent invocation to the Throne
Grace by the Rev. Mr.. Bolles, the following
,etical greeting, from one of the daughters
resent, was read.
A goodly pair. in green old age,
Long may they live!
Peace, Plenty crown their latest stage,
Long may they live!
A rare good sight, still side by side,
With joyous tears,
We greet you now, Bridegroom and Bride
OF fifty years.
Let Love and Joy sweet Youth renew,
Aud hold all sway;
While Eighteen twelve and Sixty.two,
Clasp hands to-day.
Tie Present looks back on the Past
Thro' years wel-tried,
And sees in one, two fortunes cast,
The love knot tied
"For better" proved. no doubling Mars,
All fears disperse-
You've nought to do but bless your stars
Twas not "for worse"
We gather here, with-wiling feet
Around this board
And wish you joy-of things to eat.
And things to hoard.
Dame Forums pays her best respects
With smiles of Gold.
And kindly grown, new scores expects,
Shall cancel old.
Your children, scattered far and long.
With JOY unite,
To make with gifts, and feast. and song.
A gala night.
The absent send their thoughts thro' space
To meet with ours;
Wen hold them in Loves close embrace,
These passing hours.
And some that wear Heavens glory-crown
With US rejoice
And bear its richest blessings down
With "still, small voice."
Let cheerful hearts their youth renew,
Tho locks grow gray;
Children, and childrens' children too.
Shall bless this day.
Your love, their choicest heritage,
This toast we give
A goodly pair, in green old age,
Long may they live!
This was succeeded by the more substantial
ast of good things for the physical man, al
r suitable discussion of which the friends
resent were favored by the reading of the
lowing beautiful ode by our former resident
'etess, "Amie," whose contributions now
ace the journals of her adopted home in
.liiornia:
Hail to this Golden Wedding night
Gods benediction with each guest abide
His blessing be upon the time.
On Bridegroom and on Bride!
rhe marriage rite
" hich God hath hallowed and true love hath blest
unbroken. strong thro' Times unrest,
Five decades make sublime.
Bridegroom and Bride Of fifty years,
Back from this Golden Wedding day,
)ne half century of hopes and fears,
)f blossoming Joys and dusky wales of tears,
Stretches into the solemn Past away.
Tet Time hath touched them with rare gentleness,
If su Angel had but passed to blessi
Keeping the memory green"
rhe step elastic, brow serene.
The heart, thro' trials trustful, warm, and gay,
~ II Youth vanished only yesterday!
Through varying paths their feet have trod.
This Bridegroom and this Bride
And buds have bossomed at their side;
3ome are transpanted far and wide,
,ome rest with God.
rhey have beheld Times silver snow
Falling on many an honored brow,
Like messenger of Winter, heralding
rhe Eternal Spring.
n light and shade, life's sands have run,
oft-times like diamonds dropping In the sun,
And in death, shadowed years
Darkly Like tears!
me old homo rings no more with childish glse,
)ut-led BY irresistible fate.
Dur paths are severed wide
Far as Pacifc's restless tide,
)howering its pearls within the Golden Gate,
II
sweeps out to greet the sea-
Far - the great commercial mart
That throbs with traffic like the nations heart
From prairies green
Summer with their billowy sheen
Far as the earth, with all Its sorrow, Lies
From Paradise!
Ind yet we all are here. In heart!
Absent, divided, or unseen,
With distance. time or death between
The loving what shall parts
The fathers eye
3eholds one grand Immensity-
10 space, no time
Dividing world from world, and CLINE from cline,
No closely barred celestial doors
shutting from mortal sight, Heavens pearly foors
And since true love. keeps true hearts near
We all are hsre!
VI.
Since these were wed
How Science ON its marvellous course hath sped,
Earth. air and sky, and seas
Lave yielded up to man the golden keys
OF theiI long sealed mystcries.
In ether's purple night
This prescient eye diseerns new worlds of light,
Dropping like jewels from the Hand of God,
The crystal food
Like an imprisoned Titan wrthes and tolls
With vaporous breath and thunderous turmoils
fulfilling his behest ON sea and land
Mans will and power coerce
The electric forces of the Universe.
That, like invisible couriers, bear
His secrets thro' the paptating air
)'er wastes, and mounts and moors,