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Drafts, checks and money-orders should be made payable to the order of All postmasters are obliged to register LITTELL & GAY. A WINTER WEDDING. (At Chiselhurst Church, January 9, 1873.) BY THE AUTHOR OF " JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN." IT fled away in a clang of bells, Marriage bells, On the wings of the blast that sinks and swells; Blessed is the bride whom no sun shines on. Mayhap, some wandering angels say, Stop and say, As through the gloom they carry away "God give them all that the dead man lacked Lest earth's doors opened, shut doors of heaven." Blessed is the bridegroom without crown or land; Blessed is the bride with the ring on her hand. Peal, ye joy-bells, peal through the rain, God makes happiness, God makes pain, woes. "Be not afraid," says the wild, sobbing wind; 66 Weep," sigh the clouds, "but the blue is behind." Blessed is the bridegroom under shower or sun, Blessed is the bride whom love's light shines on. AFTER THE WAR. THEY took him at that pleasant time When summer falleth, and the corn, And now the places where he stood Peer dimly through the misty morn; It wore not in the days gone by: Beside the window in the gloam Nor is there need to ope the door; For he that used to come, they say, Has travelled on another way. TO AN ANGEL PICTURED LOOKING THROUGH THE SKY. HIGH Creature, watching twirl'd See, for a seven times seven What belts of hope and fear In blame, lest One discern Fraser's Magazine. |