With Two Spoons For Two Spoons

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h3 id="id00159" style="margin-top: 3em"> WITH TWO SPOONS FOR TWO SPOONS</h3> <p id="id00160">How trifling shall these gifts appear<br/> Among the splendid many<br/> That loving friends now send to cheer<br/> Harvey and Ellen Jenney.<br/></p> <p id="id00161">And yet these baubles symbolize<br/> A certain fond relation<br/> That well beseems, as I surmise,<br/> This festive celebration.<br/></p> <p id="id00162">Sweet friends of mine, be spoons once more,<br/> And with your tender cooing<br/> Renew the keen delights of yore—<br/> The rapturous bliss of wooing.<br/></p> <p id="id00163">What though that silver in your hair<br/> Tells of the years aflying?<br/> 'T is yours to mock at Time and Care<br/> With love that is undying.<br/></p> <p id="id00164">In memory of this Day, dear friends,<br/> Accept the modest token<br/> From one who with the bauble sends<br/> A love that can't be spoken.<br/></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />