You have walked the trail together Fifty years! Love has weaved a golden tether— One that cheers. You have faced the storms that came; Tasted praise and galling blame, With a love that held the same, Fifty years! Each has been to each a blessing, Fifty years; Revelled in each sweet caressing Love reveres. You have carried heavy loads, Felt life's bitter, piercing goads, While you walked its changing roads, Fifty years. You have found life growing dearer, Fifty years, Fate has not forborn to steer her Cruel shears. You have faced, while hand in hand, Solid rock and shifting sand, Learning patience to withstand, Fifty years! Now we celebrate together, Fifty years! Times when sunshine ruled the weather; Times of tears. But, in all the tangled skein, Times of sunshine, times of rain, Shame has left no hidden stain ... Fifty years! Now we sum it up in beauty, Fifty years, Just to "do the nearest duty" That appears. Chant, "Grow old along with me, For the best is yet to be"— Love has ripened, full and free, Fifty years. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TOM O'ROUGHLEY by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS HURRAHING IN HARVEST by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS THE HOUSE WITH NOBODY IN IT by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER WHEN THE FROST IS ON THE PUNKIN by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY EVERYONE SANG by SIEGFRIED SASSOON ESTRANGEMENT by WILLIAM WATSON |