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The Wife - ZaunköniG - 27.05.2007 The Wife All day, like some sweet bird, content to sing In its small cage, she moveth to an fro; And ever and anon will upward spring To her sweet lips, fresh from the fount below, The murmured melody of pleasant thought, Unconscious uttered, gentle-toned ond low. Light household duties, evermore inwrought With placid fancies of one trusting heart That lives but in her smile, and turns From life’s cold seeming and the busy mart, With tenderness, that heavenward ever yearns To be refreshed where one pure altar burns. Shut out from hence, the mockery of life, Thus liveth she content, the meek, fond, trusting wife! |