At the Wedding March

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1879

God with honour hang your head,Groom, and grace you, bride, your bedWith lissome scions, sweet scions,Out of hallowed bodies bred.

Each be other's comfort kind:Déep, déeper than divined,Divine charity, dear charity,Fast you ever, fast bind.

Then let the March tread our ears:I to him turn with tearsWho to wedlock, his wonder wedlock,Déals tríumph and immortal years.