Old Albums, Gerald Koser
Today couples often put off marriage into their thirties. Many of these same couples, however, have parents and grandparents who were married while still teenageers. Couples married at sixteen or seventeen stayed together through the trials of growing up, the hard work of raising their own families, and the challenges of old age; they truly lived their lives together.
We Have Lived and Loved Together
We have lived and loved together
Through many changing years;
We have shared each other's gladness
And wept each other's tears;
I have known ne'er a sorrow
That was long unsoothed by thee;
For thy smiles can make a summer
Where darkness else would be.
Like the leaves that fall around us
In autumn's waning hours,
Are the traitor's smiles that darken
When the cloud of sorrow lowers;
And though many such we've known, Love,
Too prone, alas, to range,
We both can speak of one love
Which time can never change.
We have lived and loved together
Through many changing years;
We have shared each other's gladness
And wept each other's tears.
And let us hope the future
As the past will always be:
I will share with thee my sorrows,
And thou, thy joys with me.
Charles Jeffreys
