The New-Married Couple

The Lord do so to me, and more also, if ought but Death part thee and me.

Ruth i. 17.

This is true Love, and this alone,
Which Two in One conjoins,
And in Affection’s strongest Bands
And mutual Friendship binds.

This Union shall, alas! endure
By much too short a Time;
One Death severe can two divide
Whom Bands of Wedlock join.