Classic Poem

All ye who would wish to be happy for life,
Your happiness seek in the arms of a wife;
When Adam was made still something he wanted,
But his bliss was complete, when the woman was granted.

Our dangers she sweetens, our labours she shares,
Our pleasures enhances, and lessens our cares,
To health and success gives the relish to please,
But comforts misfortune, and softens disease.

But since, when once marry'd, you're marry'd for life,
Let prudence and love guide your choice of a wife,
Let her not be unhandsome, tho' virtuous and wise,
Please chiefly the mind, but neglect not the eyes.

Thus her virtues shall lustre receive from her face,
And add to her beauty attraction and grace,
Her wisdom with prudence shall teach to advise,
And her counsels persuasion derive from her eyes.

All ye batchelors seek such consorts to find,
And ye husbands, who have them, be constant and kind;
For they, who would wish to be happy for life,
Must happiness seek in the arms of a wife.