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MARRIAGE HYMN by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: NOT FOR THE SUMMER-HOUR ALONE
Last Line: FOR OUR REDEEMER'S SAKE.
Subject(s): WEDDING SONG; EPITHALAMIUM;
NOT for the summer-hour alone,
When skies resplendent shine,
And youth and pleasure fill the throne,
Our hearts and hands we join;

But for those stern and wintry days
Of peril, pain, and fear,
When Heaven's wise discipline doth make
This earthly journey drear.

Not for this span of life alone,
Which as a blast doth fly,
And like the transient flower of grass
Just blossom, droop, and die;

But for a being without end,
This vow of love we take:
Grant us, oh God! one home at last,
For our Redeemer's sake.



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