Thursday, June 18, 2020

Far More Than Rubies - 26 Years of Joy

Happy 26th anniversary to my wonderful wife, Heather Joy!

"A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies." Proverbs 31:10

Valentines 2020




Engagement Photos circa 1993








Photo by Isaac Mitchell.




Photo by: Nate Weatherly Photography, Used by Permission


The Happy Husband

Oft, oft, methinks, the while with thee
I breathe, as from the heart, thy dear
And dedicated name, I hear
A promise and a mystery,
A pledge of more than passing life,
Yea, in that very name of wife!

A pulse of love that ne'er can sleep!
A feeling that upbraids the heart
With happiness beyond desert,
That gladness half requests to weep!
Nor bless I not the keener sense
And unalarming turbulence.

Of transient joys, that ask no sting
From jealous fears, or coy denying;
But born beneath Love's brooding wing,
And into tenderness soon dying.
Wheel out their giddy moment, then
Resign the soul to love again;

A more precipitated vein
Of notes that eddy in the flow
Of smoothest song, they come, they go,
And leave their sweeter understrain
Its own sweet self-a love of thee
That seems, yet cannot greater be!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge [poemhunter.com]

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