Wedding-Hymn

Thou God, whose high, eternal Love

Is the only blue sky of our life,

Clear all the Heaven that bends above

The life-road of this man and wife.

May these two lives be but one note

In the world's strange-sounding harmony,

Whose sacred music e'er shall float

Through every discord up to Thee.

As when from separate stars two beams

Unite to form one tender ray:

As when two sweet but shadowy dreams

Explain each other in the day:

So may these two dear hearts one light

Emit, and each interpret each.

Let an angel come and dwell to-night

In this dear double-heart, and teach!