When such their union, years their cares increase;
Their love grows colder, and their pleasures cease;
In health just fed, in sickness just relieved;
By hardships harass'd and by children grieved;
In petty quarrels and in peevish strife
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The once fond couple waste the spring of life;
But, when to age mature those children grown,
Find hopes and homes and hardships of their own,
The harass'd couple feel their lingering woes