Verses on Various Occasions by John Henry Newman

Author:John Henry Newman [Newman, John Henry]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Christian poetry, English--19th century
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2021-01-06T19:08:24+00:00

Ye countless multitudes, content to bow

To the soft thraldom of the marriage vow!

I mark your haughty step, your froward gaze,

Gems deck your hair, and silk your limbs arrays;

Come, tell the gain which wedlock has conferr’d

On man; and then the single shall be heard.

The married many thus might plead, I ween;

Right glib their tongue, full confident their mien:—

“Hear all who live! to whom the nuptial rite

Has brought the privilege of life and light.

We, who are wedded, but the law obey

Stamp’d at creation on our blood and clay,

What time the Demiurge our line began,

Oped Adam’s side, and out of man drew man.

Thenceforth let children of a mortal sod

Honour the law of earth, the primal law of God.

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