Song.--Undying Affection

I loved thee in my happy youth, When I was free from guile, And I have kept that early truth, And wear as fond a smile: I've look'd to thee, through every storm That lower'd upon my way, Thou say'st my fair and fairy form Hath made thy rainbow's ray.

I loved thee in that early time, Life's best and brightest years; I gave thee in thy manhood's prime, My changing smiles and tears: And now when evening shades come o'er The length'ning path of life, And we must think of love no more, I am thy faithful wife.