My wife's a tyrant, I'm a dunce
To mind her taunt and scoff;

But when I tried the same game once,
Oh! didn't she pay me off?

C. H. A.

The report goes she has all the rule
Of her husband's purse.

Shakespeare

(Merry Wives of Windsor).

August 29.

Love me if I live!
Love me if I die!

What to me is life or death
So that thou be nigh?

Barry Cornwall.

But time, destroying far and wide,

Love from the soul can ne'er divide.

August 30.

I have placed a golden

Ring upon the hand
Of the blithest little

Lady in the land,

Barton Booth.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

The story without an end

That angels throng to hear!

Tupper.

August 29.

August 30.

And if life comes with cross and care,
Unknown in years of yore,

I know thou❜lt half the burden bear,
And I am strong once more.

Gerald Massey.

So in my heart did love awake
When breathed upon by thee.

William Leggett.

The matron at her mirror, with her hand upon her brow, Sits gazing on her lovely face-aye, lovely even now! Why doth she lean upon her hand with such a look of care?

Why steals that tear across her cheek?-she sees her first grey hair!

Thomas Haynes Bayly.

Proverb.

Beauty's but skin deep.

August 26.

Sweet! lay thy heart aboon my heart,

For it is a' thine ain;

That morning love it gi'es to thee,

Which kens nae guile or stain !

Scotch Song.

But well thou play'dst the housewife's part;
And all thy threads with magic art

Have wound themselves about this heart.

August 27.

The fires the firmament that rend
On this devoted head descend,
If e'er in thought from thee I rove,
Or love thee less than now I love.

Sail forth into the sea of life,
O, gentle, loving, trusting wife.

Cowper.

John Logan.

Longfellow

(The Golden Legend).