The Marriage Chorus of the Three Lovers

The courtship is of long duration. The wooer's voices may perhaps accord with one of the future wives, but not with both. In such cases, nature has provided that every weekly chorus shall bring the three lovers into closer harmony. Each trial of voice, each fresh discovery of discord, almost imperceptibly induces the less perfect to modify his or her vocal utterance so as to approximate to the more perfect. And after many trials and many approximations, the result is at last achieved. There comes a day when, while the wanted marriage chorus goes forth from universal line land, the three far off lovers suddenly find themselves in exact harmony. Before they are awake, the wedded