On the Brink of Married Life You Wait with Wonder

Music: Preludes dans le tons majeurs et mineurs: Wiegenlied. By Charles Henri Valentin Alkan. Sequenced by Segundo G. Yogore at Kunst der Fuge.

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On the brink of married life you wait with wonder: The coming moment, mystic and mundane, Brings law and love incongruously together To form a bond both passionate and sane. For now it has to be about the party: Guests must be fed, clothes bought, proceedings planned; But underneath there is abiding beauty, Redeeming what the decencies demand. Praised be the pillars on which we place our lives, Standing more secure than else we might; And praised be those in whom such sense survives, Whose love becomes for all a source of light. So do we celebrate, as the moment nears, A love that counts its happiness in years.