From the Grand Forks Daily Herald, August 2, 1915.

A little boy and girl at school,
    Learning the self-same things;
Laughing and playing in the sun,
    Dear little wanderlings.
And he says to her, earnest-wise,
    And shyly droops his head,
“I love you most of all the world,”
    “And I love you,” she said.

A man and woman, calm, sedate,
    Learning the self-same things
From life’s great book, grown keen and wise
    From world-wide wanderings.
And he to her says, earnest-wise,
    And proudly lifts his head,
“I love you better than my life,”
    “And I love you,” she said.

A man and woman, old and old,
    Down life’s last slope they tread;
All bent and shrunken is her form,
    And silvery white his head.
And soft he says, “My dear, my dear,
    We’ve many years been wed,
But still I love you more and more.”
    “I love you too,” she said.