Friday, April 5, 2013

IT SURE NEEDS TO BE SAID----AGAIN !


SOMETIMES YESTERDAY'S VERSE APPEARS AS TODAY'S HEADLINES. CONSIDER:

     The Ideal Husband to His Wife


      WE'VE lived for forty years, dear wife,
        And walked together side by side,
      And you to-day are just as dear
        As when you were my bride.
      I've tried to make life glad for you,
        One long, sweet honeymoon of joy,
      A dream of marital content,
        Without the least alloy.
      I've smoothed all boulders from our path,
        That we in peace might toil along,
      By always hastening to admit
        That I was right and you were wrong.
      No mad diversity of creed
        Has ever sundered me from thee;
      For I permit you evermore
        To borrow your ideas of me.
      And thus it is, through weal or woe,
        Our love forevermore endures;
      For I permit that you should take
        My views and creeds, and make them yours.
      And thus I let you have my way,
        And thus in peace we toil along,
      For I am willing to admit
        That I am right and you are wrong.
      And when our matrimonial skiff
        Strikes snags in love's meandering stream,
      I lift our shallop from the rocks,
        And float as in a placid dream.
      And well I know our marriage bliss
        While life shall last will never cease;
      For I shall always let thee do,
        In generous love, just what I please.
      Peace comes, and discord flies away,
        Love's bright day follows hatred's night;
      For I am ready to admit
        That you are wrong and I am right.
      Sam Walter Foss
((My note: How did he know this was my situation? Maybe yours too?)

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