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336 The house is not the home; but where The wife is found, the home is there. The home without the wife is less To me than some wild wilderness.

Some wives their life's devotion give, And in and for the husband live; Whatever man has such a wife Is heaped with blessings all his life."

From fowling-cage the female dove Had caught the speech of grief and love; And she was deeply gratified, And to her husband thus replied:

No woman earns the name of bride Whose husband is not satisfied. If he is happy, she may know The gods she venerates are so.

That woman should be burned entire Like vines that fade in forest-fire While blossoms drop from clustered side) Whose husband is not satisfied."

And she continued: