Love Is As You Grow Old

All my happiness goes out to you
Pride and pleasure, joy, sweet tears, and love !
Reason, hope, and faith together move
In harmony to bless all that you do.


Let this beginning be the golden dawn
at which all dew-drenched nature sings its glory !
Nor should the darkness shrouding every story
Dim the blue eyed beauty of this morn.
More of life will come than you can hold
A flood no mortal witness can withstand.
Rest, then, within a quiet, gentle hand,
knowing where love is as you grow old.