San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-03-27
Your Wedding Ring.

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Tomorrow will DO your wedding.day'
The feast Is prepared, the guests piuuoh'
and all things made ready.
In the pocket OF your vest Is inc tny
box containing the golden talisinah
which Is 10 change all your future me-
How your heart beats with glad tu'
multuous throbblng at thought OF inc
shining circlet resting Just above H. ana
how absurdly happy you have felt ever
since the wonderful thing has been In
your possession.
The clerk in the jewelers. store saw
through tho elaborate unconcern OF
vour air, and was no whit deceived by
The careless tone in which you asked Tor
plain gold rings. wedding r,ngs,
sirpn he questioned. with n symphthhehc
smile, rs no handed you the box; linen
with what interest he watched you III
tho glittering band on your smallest
finger. giving advice as 10 weight, slzc
and style with kind iriondliness.
Ont on the street, after your purchase
was made, what delicious thrills kept
tinolinp through your veins, and what u
warm sunshiny feeling there was about
your heart.
In the exuberance of your Joy you
could have embraced the whole world,
and three times you went out OF your
way TO help tired, frightened children
over the crowded crossings. In the
strect-car you surrendered your seat to
tho stout old woman with the big mar
ket basket. without rcbellions
thought, and stood on the platform with
the driver contentedly for fifteen long
blocks. Little bcggar girls reaped from
You nm abundan, harvest, and lively, I'm
pudrnt bOot-blacks regarded you rs
their legitimate prey. Sitting In your
armchair now. In your solitary bache::
lor apartment, soon TO be solitary ana
bachelor no longer, you take the uny
casket from your pocket. and, with the
golden band between your fingers, fall
adreaming Of the things 20 be.
Deep down in the sanctuary OF your
heart Is registered tho VOW TO love, pro-
tcci and cherish with all honor and ten
derness the woman this circlot binds to
YOU forever
How earnestly and faithfully you plan
TO shield and guard her, striving ever
TO advance in truth and nobleness so
that your breast may always DO a Ut
ting shrine for her pure love. with
what tender reverence you touch with
your lips the shining token OF the bliss
10 be, as yoa murmur prayer in your
heart that God VIII bless the glad, new
life and make and keep you worthy OF
tie little hand so soon TO wear your
wedding ring.
In your revery in the deep armchair,
love holds aloft fairy mirror, and pict-
ures all the morrow's scene. In fancy
YOU behold the dear form clad in flow
ing snowy garments and enveloped in
nimsy cloud of lace, floating beside
you up the aisle of the stately old
church. The graceful, dropping head
il crowned with orange flowers. and in
the beautiful eyes is tender, luminous
shining. Around the sweet lips plays
q quivering smile like April sunshine
and the hand on your arm trembles a
little.
The grand, solemn ceremony begins
which binds her fair young life to yours,
for Joy or grief, veal or woe, ill death
shall break the link, and as the words
fill your ears, you realize with grateful,
awed intensity that grand, wonderful
responsibility aud power over the hap
pineas of human life is given into
your keeping.
Then you walk dreamily down the
aisle aud are driven home, where You
partake of tho wedding breakfast and
make speech of thanks when the
health of the bridal couple is proposed.
with only vague, indistinct notion OF
what you are doing, for heart and brain
are flied to overlooking with the glad,
exultant consciousness that the wonder
full whtc-robed creature beside you Is
your wife, and that on the third finger
Of her hand CLEANS your golden we'd
ding ring. albany Euemin9 journal.