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WEDDING FEAST by AMY BOWER

First Line: JUST ONE MORE BRIDE HAS PASSED BEFORE
Last Line: BLESSED THE BRIDE IN HER SILKS AND LACES.
Subject(s): BRIDES; MARRIAGE; WEDDINGS; HUSBANDS; WIVES;
Just one more bride has passed before
The altar and out the old church door.
Her friends flung rice, her laugh was gay,
And merrily she was whisked away.

Then a brooding quiet settled down
On the dusty street in the little town;
And out from a nearby house there stole
A shabby old couple with broom and bowl.
They swept up the rice while their grateful faces
Blessed the bride in her silks and laces.



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