BETA

v.

To Marg. Baldhoven, etc. lately
married.

Would’st love thy husband and thyself be
loved ?
1
With mild observance all his humours meet ;2
So shall the casual bitter turn to sweet.3
’Tis his to order,—ours to heed ; for he4
Is the true head ; the aiding members we.5
Christ, with His Church conjoined in mystic
bands,
6
To man and wife the type in wedlock stands.7