Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 2, 19 Kepakemapa 1893 — SWEETHEARTS AND WIVES. [ARTICLE]

SWEETHEARTS AND WIVES.

(By Dauiel 0'ConneIl.) I( sweethearts were sweetheans always, Whether as maid or wife, No drop wonld be half so pleasant In the mingled dranght of life. Bnt the sweetheart has smiles and hlnahea When the wife has ftowus and sighs, And Ihe wife's have a wrathful glitter For the glow o( the »weetheart’s eves, lf loven were lovere always, The same to sweetheart and wife, Who wouKi cbange for a futnre of £den The joys of thia cbequered hfe? But husbands grow grave and »ilent, And cares on the anxious brow Oft replace the auuahiue that periahed At the words of tbe marriage vow. Happy is he whoae sweethcart I» wife and sweetbeart still— W hoM* voice, as of old, ean ehann; Whoee kis*. as of old, ean ihiill; Who has plucked the poee, to fiad evcr It» beauty and (ragrance inoeaae, As tbe fiush of paaaiou :s mellowed In love * unme*8urevl peaee; Who see» in the step a lightne&s; Who 6nds in the form a graoe; Who ieads an unaltered hnghtuess In Ihe witchery of the (aee, Tndimmcti and tmchanged. Ah! happy I* he erowned «ith s .ich a life, Who drinks the wife, pledging the sweetheart And toaata in tbe sweetheart the vife. The Boston wiil leave Honolola on tbe inst., proceedihg to San Francisco where she will go on the dry dock.