"On Marriage"

by Robert Burns
(1759-1796)

That hackney'd judge of human life,
The Preacher and the King,
Observes:-"The man that gets a wife,
He gets a noble thing."
But how capricious are mankind,
Now loathing, now desirous!
We married men, how oft we find
The best of things will tire us!
          

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