Is Marriage A Failure - A poem by Ellen P. Allerton

Is Marriage a Failure?

When we were young, and Love was young,
   And life was bright with morning dew,
And Hope sang sweet with silver tongue.
   I did not think so then^___did you?

The years went by. Up stony roads
   We toiled, still hand in hand, we two,
While dear love lightened heaviest loads^___
   I did not think so then^___did you?

Sore trouble came; and griefs and fears
   Sat at our hearth the sad days through;
And while each dried the other's tears,
   I did not think so then^___did you?

While henceforth through the shadows lead
   Dim down-hill paths before us two,
And each of us had greatest needs,
   I do not think so now^___do you?

When through the dark vale all must tread
   One passes, and on bosom true,
Leans at last a dying head^___
   I will not think so then, will you?

^__Ellen P. Allerton.