Mum's Rhymes

'TIL DEATH DO US PARTDear love, I held your hand in mine,And all around was still,In answer to the words "wil't thou"I answered back "I will."It took no time, a little thing,Very few words were said,But I had joined my life to yoursTil one of us are dead.Only 'til death, when will that be?It makes me sad, you know,For life is such uncertainty,Soon one of us may go.Then we'd be free to wed again,This marriage but a breathI had belonged to you alone,But only until death.Or we may live a little while,Our home may know the joysOf children prattling 'round the hearth,Of stalwart girls and boys.But life at longest is not long,How sad it seems to me,For we have joined ourselves 'til death,And not eternity.Eva M. R. SalwayMum's Poems pg 43