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we live together again. I assure you I will try & do what I can to make it a true home & I know you will respond affectionately & lovingly to my efforts, for you are a dear good true & noble wife. My heart responds to Schiller's description of the worth of Woman, such a woman s are you my dear good wife.

 "Honored be Woman! She beams on the sight,

Beautiful & fair, like a being of light; Scatters around her, wherever she strays, Roses of bliss on our thorn-covered ways, Roses of Paradise, sent from above To be gathered & twined in a garland of love.

Woman invites man, with bliss in her smile, To cease from his toil & be happy awhile. Whispering wooingly - come to my bower! Go not in search of the phantom of Power! Honor & wealth are illusory: Come! Happiness dwells in the temple of Home.

She, like the harp - that instinctively sings, As the night breathing zephyrs soft sighs o're the strings, Responds to Each impulse with ready reply, Whether sorrow or pleasure her sympathy try; And tear drops & smiles on her countenance play, Like the sunshine & showers of a morning in May.

[left-hand side] These lines are my Valentine to My dear & noble Wife. May God bless her & restore her to that health & happiness she so richly deserves is the prayer of her affectionate husband.

[right-hand side]"How blest the sacred tie that binds In union sweet according minds. How high, how strong their raptures swell There is none but kindred souls can tell."