And sun-like pleasures shine at home.
Coventry Patmore.
CCLXX
THE HAPPY HUSBAND.
He safely walks in darkest ways,
Whose youth is lighted from above,
Where through the senses’ silvery haze
Dawns the veiled moon of nuptial love.
Who is the happy husband? He, 5
Who scanning his unwedded life,
Thanks Heaven, with a conscience free,