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AT THE WEDDING MARCH by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS

Poet Analysis

First Line: GOD WITH HONOUR HANG YOUR HEAD
Last Line: DEALS TRIUMPH AND IMMORTAL YEARS.
Subject(s): LOVE; LOVE - MARITAL; MARRIAGE; WEDDED LOVE; MARRIAGE - LOVE; WEDDINGS; HUSBANDS; WIVES;

GOD with honour hang your head,
Groom, and grace you, bride, your bed
With lissome scions, sweet scions,
Out of hallowed bodies bred.

Each be other's comfort kind:
Deep, deeper than divined,
Divine charity, dear charity,
Fast you ever, fast bind.

Then let the March tread our ears:
I to him turn with tears
Who to wedlock, his wonder wedlock,
Deals triumph and immortal years.




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