He thought it was no time to speak.

So silently John went away,

And now he brings his wife to-day.

And there they are! And this is he

(I’d know his voice if I were blind!);

And in his smiling spouse I see

A gracious beauty, fair and kind,

A stately lady—not at all

Like yon quaint picture on the wall!

And now for all the boys and girls