The Archive · 1925

Why He Married Her

He said he married her because loved her.

She said he married her because she really understood him His friend the biologist said he married her because he was tall and. she was short, and-he was bland and she was dark.

His friend the psychoanalyst said he married her because she resemble his mother.

The girl who had wanted him for herself said he married her because love is blind, The man who had wanted her for himself said he married her because he wanted her money.

But the real reason he married her was that she had squeezed his hand while they were sitting out a dance the night he proposed.

Who thou art I know not, But this much I know; Thou hast set the Pleiades In a silver row; Thou hast sent the trackless winds Loose upon their way Thou hast reared a coloured wall "Twit the nicht and day Thou hast made the flowers to bloom 'And the stars to shine; Hid rare gems of richest' ore In the tunneled mine; But chief of all thy wondrous works, Supreme of all thy plan, Thou hast put an upward reach Into the heart of man,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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