The love I could not live without.

'Tis more than fifty years since we were wed,

How rapidly the time has fled.

The way has not been always smooth,

I only cite the fact to prove

Our love was true. That is to say

We found some shadows o'er our way.

But they were shadows only, and did not bother,

For reaching out our hands to touch each other

We kept the path until the light