Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-04-30
Honors such as angels wear
Sacral Iova and virtnae fair

Honors such as angels wear
Sacred love and virtues fair
Compared with which, all others fade,
AS, ,by the diam n dull the pearl is made
How happy life, if thus its eve display
sunset bright with many golden ray
Which gives fair bodings of the Coming Day,
Whom Heavenly light
Will Danish night
And free from every care
And we their children, all
Welcome the happy call
Which bids us to their cheerful hall,
Where ever, midst gay pleasures round,
glad reception all have found;
And where again we II wake the smile
Which used to Danish grief with merry vile.
How oft do childhsods happy hours hcguile
Our careful souls to some enchanting drea'nl
How oft will youthful memory gay TEEN
With pure dalight at thought of those we deem
A gift more fair
Than divers bear
From oceans depth profound
Hail to the one that stays
To cheer their latter days
Who, by her bright and loving ways
Adds full many happy hour
10 cheer them in their earthly bower.
And hail to YOU who though bereft
of sons and daughters by young Cupid's theft,
Have still this bright and blooming flower left,
Which TO the parent stem with 70 ldness cllngs,
Though Cupids bow its neetest arrows filings
To cut the stenl. So now, though Time still wings
Your life away,
BE bth and gay
And cherish we'll this ilowerl
The evening party, comprising the parents,
children, grand children aud about scveDIy-iive
invited guests, passed most delightful time
from to Ii D. H.; one of the prctliest Incl
dents being the beautiful grouping of the grand
children, the small ones seated on the floor,
with the larger standing BEND them. This was
repeated in each of the parlors, so that the
guests might have an opportunity to see the
whole OF them. During the evening, the hours
of which few rapidly by, the grandfather and
grandmother received the hearty congratula-
tons Of many an old and true friend, who, with
them, was descending the vale OF years.
The reunion was most remarkable and 10
teresting one and probably we "ncer shall
look upon its like again" The chronicles of
Aexaudria do not often mention couple who,
after fifty years of welded life, can gather
around their hearth stone eleven chlldren'-all
that had been born to them and tOrty-Gvc
grand children, all save two little ones, who
dicd-all strong and healthy and prosperous,
and all, too, who, during their whole lives have
deemed it their greatest joy to show honor and
respect to those from whom they derived their
life nor do they often tell the history OF those
whose youthful hopes and aspirations have
been crowned with such trultlon. The palr-
arch and his wife who, fifty years ago, joined
their hands and hearts together, then looked
back through that long intervening vista, With
uncouded sight, and saw fewer objects OF re-
greet than most of those could see whose vision
extended but for half that length. They had
lived honest, sober and industrious lives, raised
their children to love God and respect their tel
lowgmen, and, having enjoyed all the rational
delights of youth and middle age, were, in life 5
decline, experiencing pleasures that arc granted
to but few on earth, and we now repeat the
hope expressed then, that all the ways of them
selves and their children may be those Of pleas
autncss and all their paths be peace.