Ishmael had some daughters

Ishmael had some daughters who soon needed to be married;

Lehi had some sons who as single long had tarried.

And so these sons and daughters got together pretty soon,

and in the chancy wilderness they had their honeymoon.

Raw meat and desert locusts they did eat while big with child;

and yet we read that Ishmael's daughters stayed both meek and mild.

I wonder at their patience as they trudged the arid waste;

was this the life they dreamed of when they'd been so young and chaste?

I do not think that marriage is much easier these days. 

God bless ev'ry woman who in matrimony stays!