An Old-Fashioned Type by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

For ‘Mabel Brown' I never cared / (My rightful name by birth), / But when the name of Smith I shared, / I seemed to own the earth, / (I wrote it without ‘y' or ‘e'- / Plain ‘Mrs. Jack Smith' suited me.)

My happiest hour, as I look back / On times of great content, / Was when folks called me ‘Mrs. Jack,' / Though ‘Mrs. Smith' was meant. / It was the pleasure of my life / To hear them say: ‘That's Jack Smith's wife.'