Letters to married women / [Hugh Smith].

  • Hugh Smith
Date:
1774
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Credit: Letters to married women / [Hugh Smith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Grace was in all her fteps, heav’n in her eye, In every gellure dignity, and love! I over-joy’d could not forbear aloud.— This turn hath made amends* Thou h^ft fulflli’d- Thy words. Creator bounteous, and benign ! Giver of all things fair! but falreft this Of all thy gifts! nor env left. I now fee Bone of my bone, flefti of my flelh, myfelf Before me: woman is her name j of man Extrafted: for this cairfe he lhall forego Father and mother, and to his wife adhere; And they fliall be one flelli, one heart, one foul.' She heard me thus; and though divinely broughtF Yet Innocence, and virgin modefty, Her virtue, and the confcience of her worth,' 'Fhat would be woo'd, and not unfought be won; Not obvious, not obtiufive, but retir’d, ' The more dcfirable; or, to fay ail. Nature herfelf (though pure of finful thought)' Wrought in her fo, that feeing me, flie turn’d ;, I follow’d her; the what was honour knew. And, with obfequlous majefty, approv'd Jvly pleaded reafon.-To the nuptial bow'r I led her, bluflilng like the morn : all heav’n, And happy con^ellations, on that hour Shed their fe’ecfeft influence: ahe earth • Gave fign of gratulation, and each hill; Joyous the birds; frefh gales, and gentle airs Whifper’d it to the woods, and from their wings • Flung rofe, flung odors from tlie fpicy flirubs. lO
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