Hail happy pair from whom such raptures rise, <br />On whom I gaze with pleasure and surprize; <br />From thy bright rays the gloom of strife is driven, <br />For all the smiles of mutual love are Heaven. <br /> <br />Thrice happy pair! no earthly joys excel <br />Thy peaceful state; there constant pleasures dwell, <br />Which cheer the mind and elevate the soul, <br />Whilst discord sinks beneath their soft control. <br /> <br />The blaze of zeal extends from breast to breast, <br />While Heaven supplies each innocent request; <br />And lo! what fond regard their smiles reveal, <br />Attractive as the magnet to the steel. <br /> <br />Their peaceful life is all content and ease, <br />They with delight each other strive to please; <br />Each other's charms, they only can admire, <br />Whose bosoms burn with pure connubial fire. <br /> <br />Th' indelible vestige of unblemished love, <br />Must hence a guide to generations prove: <br />Though virtuous partners moulder in the tomb, <br />Their light may shine on ages yet to come. <br /> <br />With grateful tears their well-spent day shall close, <br />When death like evening calls them to repose; <br />Then mystic smiles may break from deep disguise, <br />Like Vesper's torch transpiring in the skies. <br /> <br />Like constellations still their works may shine, <br />In virtue's unextinguished blaze divine; <br />Happy are they whose race shall end the same-- <br />Sweeter than odours is a virtuous name. <br /> <br />Such is the transcript of unfading grace, <br />[illegible] eflecting lustre on a future race. <br />[illegible] virtuous on this line delight to tread, <br />[illegible] magnify the honors of the dead-- <br /> <br />Who like a Phoenix did not burn in vain, <br />Incinerated to revive again; <br />From whose exalted urn young love shall rise, <br />Exulting from a funeral sacrifice.<br /><br />George Moses Horton<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/on-the-consequences-of-happy-marriages/
