Three pairs of eyes, three hearts and three all

So young and yet so selfless,
you are, indeed, my pride and my joy:
to pledge your eyes, your heart, your all
at the tender age of twenty-three -
when one is so young,
and life is so sweet,
not many episodes to your credit,
nor many experiences experienced, indeed...

Yet you found it in your little young heart
(like me, when i was thirty-three),
a selfless pledge i'd made, myself to give:
'My eyes, my heart, my all'
i'd pledged to give -
'rather than that they should feed the worms'-
that someone might see the sunrise, feel the dew drops
or might a little longer live...

But the greatest pride and joy was when you asked,
"We have both pledged, so what about you?"
to which the reply was:
"Since both of you had done it, why not?"
and coming from the one who has always preached
that 'charity begins at home',
at one year short of sixty-three,
is a double joy, a double triumph, indeed!

So now we have three to give:
three pairs of eyes ...
three hearts ...
our selves, to give ...