The Lament of the Mormon Wife: A Poem

THE LAMENT OF The Mormon Wife
A POEM BY MARIETTA HOLLEY.
ILLUSTRATED
AMERICAN PUBLISHING CO. Hartford, Conn. 1880.
COPYRIGHT BY MARIETTA HOLLEY. 1880. (All rights reserved.)
THE LAMENT OF THE MORMON WIFE.
FADED and thin is the hair he so lovingly pressed
From my girlish brow, that twilight in happy May;
“Sweetheart,” he said, “your hair outshines the light in the west;”
Golden hair and golden sunset,—both are gray.
’Twas then he set this ring on my hand, as he murmured low,
Words that come back to me sweet and sad as my mother’s funeral hymn: