In this day of adversity and turmoil its good to be reminded why love prevails despite ills all. Here is poetic inspiration for today's groom and unwavering love to his bride: Stanza's To Augusta Though the day of my destiny's over, And the star of my fate hath declined, Thy soft heart refused to discover The faults which so many could find; Though thy soul with my grief was acquainted, It shrunk not to share it with me, And the love which my spirit hath painted It never hath found but in thee . Then when nature around me is smiling, The last smile which answers to mine, I do not believe it beguiling, Because it reminds me of thine; And when winds are at war with the ocean, As the breasts I believed in with me, If their billows excite an emotion, It is that they bear me from thee . Though the rock of my last hope is shivered, And its fragments are sunk in the wave, Though I feel that my soul is delivered. ...