True Marriage
'Tis not true friendship ours, if there be yet
Secrets between us, but a friendly cheat:
Though, in our frequent greetings, hands be met,
In soul we do not meet.
How much less is it marriage, if one wear
A shadow which the other may not lift!
True marriage gives in joy the mutual share,
In grief the mutual shrift.
True marriage is two persons but one life;
Two brains one mind—the hour-glass and the sand,
No grain of reservation—husband, wife—
One interest, hand in hand.
Secrets between us, but a friendly cheat:
Though, in our frequent greetings, hands be met,
In soul we do not meet.
How much less is it marriage, if one wear
A shadow which the other may not lift!
True marriage gives in joy the mutual share,
In grief the mutual shrift.
True marriage is two persons but one life;
Two brains one mind—the hour-glass and the sand,
No grain of reservation—husband, wife—
One interest, hand in hand.
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