The Silver Wedding.
 

Dedicated to Mr. and Mrs. J.N. Barnett, of Columbia, Tenn.

Silver bells! Silver bells!

Light a merry wedding bells!

Hymen sits in state today

Banishing all cares away.

Cupid first a garland wove,

Wreathing youthful hearts in love;

Craftily he twined  the two,

 Five and twenty years ago.

Fresh’ning dews and vernal show’rs

Soft he sprinkled o’er the flow’rs

That they ne’er might fade and die,

But e’er blossom ‘neath love’s sky

Violet innocent and fair

Primrose pale and Rose most rare

Lily of the brightest ray

Hyacinth of game and play.

This the chaplet beauteous bright,

Budding, blooming in love’s light,

Save the Primrose weak and pale,

It was aye for earth toe frail

And it gently took its flight

Ere it knew of sorrow’s slight

Ere earth’s thorny path it trod

Went its infant soul to God

But no tear be shed today!

Flee all sighs and cares away!

Chime the little silver bells-

Hymen’s head with triumph swells.

Lightly on fantastic toe

Trip the dancers to and fro

Grandame smiling at the scene

Is a child again I wean

But to her a day like this

Mem’ry brings to mar her bliss;

‘Tis a “Golden Wedding day”

Tells of him now passed away.

Ah! no tears must here be shed!

Sighs and cares are surely fled

Peel the joyous silver bells!

Hymen’s head with triumph swells

May this silv’ry music chime

Sweetly down the streams of time

Till ring in merrily

Life’s own Golden Wedding-day!

.,

Title:  The Silver Wedding
Author: Imoan
Location: Helena, Ark
Year:  June 21, 1867
Media:  Newspaper article, glued to page 7 of  the Ledger of Captain W. B. Blair

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