On Your Wedding Day, as You Trade Vows

Music: Fugue in F# Major. By Dimitri Shostakovich. Sequenced by J. Marques.

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On your wedding day, as you trade vows, No ordinary moment hurries by. You partake, as far as time allows, Of something more than time and Earth and sky: Unknowable, invisible, yet there; Resplendent to the heart if not the face; More than both of you, yet less than air; A transcendental act conferring grace. Reason might say, How can this be true? Return then to the heart, for this is love. In making vows, you make one out of two, A mystery beyond what words can prove. Go then as one flesh, one home, one heart: Each still a whole, yet also now a part.