MATRIMONIAL PHILOSOPHY.
Reading edition
[With Moving Tableaux Arranged for this Publication.]
There were lovers three in the days gone by,
They were healthy, they were wealthy, yet they’d sit and sigh,
Sit and sigh till the window curtains shook,
And all for the sake of a sweet maid’s look.
For they loved her one, and two, and three,
And each one prayed her his bride to be;
Till she cried, “Ah, no, you must surely see,
If I don’t love one that I can’t love three.”
Three sad men, but they loved enough for ten,
And they sighed enough for twenty, these sad young men.[1]
19Then these lovers three in the days gone by,
In their anguish did they languish, and they longed to die.[2]
Longed to die, till a year had passed or more,
And a fourth suitor came to the maiden’s door;
And he knelt so low on bended knee,
As he asked the maid his bride to be,
That the others thought “He will cut out me,”
And their souls were racked with jealousy.[3]
Three stern men, but they frowned enough for ten,
And they scowled enough for twenty, these stern young men.[4]
Then the fourth young swain in the days gone by,
Wooed this maiden so love laden, till she made reply,
Made reply--“You have won my trusting heart,”
And at church they vowed never more to part;
But they quarreled so when they were wed,
That the three young men they smiled and said--
“It’s a lucky thing that he cut out me,
For his wife is a shrew as we all can see.”[5]
Three wise men, but they smiled enough for ten,
And they laughed enough for twenty, these wise young men.[6]
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