An Idol of Clay
Nixon Waterman
1859 to 1944
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What did she give for her wedding-ring?
All that woman may!
What did the gifts to the bring?
Only an idol of clay.
All the dreams of her girlhood years,
All that a heart hold;
All of her hopes and all of fears,
All of her smiles and all of tears.
For one little circle of gold.
Told she world of the bitter cheat?
Ah, no! With a face
She clothed her idol from head to
With the garments of her grace.
And no knew of the tears she wept;
Her griefs they never guessed,
For hid in her heart of she kept
Her thorns of woe. And so slept
With her hands across her breast.
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