Ay; but wait, good wife, a minute,
I have first a word to say;
Do you know what to-day is?
Mother, ’tis our wedding day![[1]]
Just as now, we sat at supper
When the guests had gone away;
You sat that side, I sat this side,
Forty years ago to-day!
Then what plans we laid together,
What brave things I meant to do!