Religious Wedding Vows and Poems
Articles
The following poems may be listed on
our site in three ways. By poem author, by poem
title, or by the first line in the poem. Some
poems are listed in its full entirety, others only
by quotes as used in wedding vows. However , no
part of the poems have been changed. For you
reading enjoying each page may contain a link to
more poems written by the artist on various external
websites.
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A Lover's Vow |
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A Marriage
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A Plain Old Kiss |
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Alas, we loved,
sire used to meet - Robert Browning |
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All love is sweet. Given or
returned - Percy Bysshe Shelly |
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Another Time |
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Art of Marriage |
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But here's the joy: my friend and I
- William Shakespeare |
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But to see her was to love
her - Robert Burns |
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Come live
with me and be my love -
Christopher Marlowe |
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Come when my heart is full
of grief - Paul Laurence Dunbar |
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Cycles |
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Daughter
in Law Poem - You came to me not after nine months of waiting |
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Did my heart
love 'til now? - William Shakespeare |
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Drink to me
with only thing eyes - Ben Johnson |
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Each
shining light above us has its own particular grace - John Hay |
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Earth holds no other like to thee
- Lord Byron |
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Eternity |
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Everyone longs
to give themselves completely to someone |
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Excerpt from The Velveteen Rabbit |
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Excerpt from Tuesdays With Morrie
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Flesh of my
flesh, bone of my bone, - Mary Sidney Herbert |
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For my sweet love |
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For one human being to love another human
being - Rainer Rilke |
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For they sweet
love remembered - William Shakespeare |
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Foundations of Marriage
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God hath made nothing single
- Emily Dickinson |
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Grow old along
with me! - Robert Browning |
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Half of me
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Here we
stand before witnesses, to make vows this day, -
Tom
Panchaud |
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Hold infinity in the
palm of your hand - William Blake |
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Hope is the thing
with feathers - Emily
Dickinson
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How do I love thee? -
Elizabeth Browning |
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How much do I
love thee? - Mary Ashley Townsend |
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I Love You |
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I
am not sure that Earth is round - Amelia Burr |
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I choose to truly
love you with kindness, faithfulness, and respect |
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I do not know what it is
about you - E. E. Cummings |
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I have led her home,
my love - Lord Alfred Tennyson |
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I know not if I know what true love is -
Lord Alfred Tennyson |
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I'll be as
patient as a gentle stream - William
Shakespeare |
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I
dreamed of a wedding of elaborate elegance |
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I give you my love more
precious than money - Walt Whitman |
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I love you for what
you are, but I love you yet more - Carl Sandburg |
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I love you, Not
only for what you are But for what I am |
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I love
you without knowing how, or when, or from where |
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I love thee, I
love but thee - William Shakespeare |
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I think true
love is never blind - Phoebe Cary |
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I shall desire
more love - William Shakespeare |
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If a thing loves - William Blake |
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I'll love him
more - Jean Ingelow |
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If thou must love me -
Elizabeth Browning |
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In love we are made visible
- Mary Swenson
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In Love Made Visible |
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It is the heart and not the brain
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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Joy, gentle
friends - William Shakespeare |
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Just because I love you
- Langston Hughes |
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Kisses are better fate
- E. E. Cummings |
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Let me not to the marriage of true minds
- William Shakespeare |
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Let's grow old together.
beginning with today - Braxton Brown and Peggy
Smith |
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let this ring be
your constant reminder of my unending commitment |
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Listen, I will be honest
with you - Walt Whitman |
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Look not in my eyes, for fear
- A. E. Housman |
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Long after moments of
closeness have passed - Robert Sexton |
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Love
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Love's Philosophy
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Love,
all alike, no season knows - John Donne |
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Love has chosen you for me |
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Love is not Love
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Love comforteth
- William Shakespeare |
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Love comes quietly -
Robert Creeley |
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Love
does not consist in gazing at each other - Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
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Love is not
love Which alters - William
Shakespeare |
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Love is not
getting, but giving - Henry Van Dyke |
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Love is only Gold
- Lord Alfred Tennyson |
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Love is Twain
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Love as a Challenge
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Love Reflects Love |
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Love me, sweet, with all thou art
- Elizabeth Browning |
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Love makes those
young whom age doth chill - William Cartwright |
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Love's
mysteries in soul's do grow - John Donne |
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Love sought is
good - William Shakespeare |
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Love! the surviving gift of
Heaven - Thomas Campbell |
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Love to faults is always blind
- William Blake |
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Love seeketh not itself to please - William
Blake |
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Love, trust, and
forgiveness are the foundations of marriage - Regina Hill |
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Love will find a way
- Lord Byron |
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May
these vows and this marriage be blessed |
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May you
know, in your heart that others are always thinking of you-For
Fathers |
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Marriage |
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Marriage
is a commitment to life, the best -- Edmund O'neil |
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Marriage is the
clue to human life, - D. H. Laurence |
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My bounty is
as boundless as the sea - William
Shakespeare |
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My face in thine eyes,
thine in mine appears - John Donne |
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My fellow, my companion, help most dear,
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Mary Sidney Herbert |
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My Oath to
You - Loreene Broker |
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Needs |
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Now the rite is
duly done - Winthrop Mackworth Praid |
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O, human
love! - Edgar Allen Poe |
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O lyric Love, Half
angel - Robert Browning |
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O, thou art fairer than the
evening air - Christopher Marlowe |
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O my luve's like a red, red
rose - Robert Burns |
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Of Shared Love |
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Once he drew with
one long kiss - Lord Alfred Tennyson |
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One half of me
is yours - William Shakespeare |
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One heart's
enough for me-One heart to love - Auguste Mignon |
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One shad
the more, one ray the less -
Lord Byron |
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One Way Love |
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Our boat to
the waves go free - William Ellery Channing |
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So fall asleep love, loved by me
- Robert Browning |
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So shall a friendship fill
each heart - Georgia McCoy |
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So they lovd
as love in twain - William
Shakespeare |
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So dear I love
him that with him - William
Shakespeare |
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somewhere i have
never |
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Sonnet 18 |
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Sonnet 116 |
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Speak to Us of Love |
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Such is my love - William
Shakespeare |
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Take a Chance |
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That old miracle-Love at
first sight - Owen Meredith |
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The face of all the world is changed
- Elizabeth Browning |
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The first sound in the song of
love - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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The
fountains mingle with the river - Lord
Alfred Tennyson |
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The minute I heard my first
love story - Mystical Poems of Rumi |
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The more of my poor heart
you take - Edmond Rostand |
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The Prophet |
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The
Passionate Shepherd to His Love,
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The Picture |
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The Symposium |
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The violet
loves a sunny bank. -
Bayard Taylor |
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The web of
marriage is made by propinquity - Anne Lindbergh |
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There be
none of Beauty's daughters -
Lord Byron |
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There is not a
breathing of - William Wordsworth |
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They sin who tell us love
can die - Robert Southey |
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Thou'rt
loved, adored by me - Thomas Moore |
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Thou wert my joy in every
spot - John Clare |
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Thinking of
you keeps me entranced in a passionate world |
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Til Death Do Us Part
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Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark Our coming
- Lord Byron |
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To live content
with small means - Reverend William Henry
Channing |
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To me, fair
friend, you never can be old -
William Shakespeare |
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To wait an Hour is
long
- Emily Dickinson |
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Touched by an Angel
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Today I
will marry one of the FEW, the PROUD, a US MARINE -
Jinae McGhan |
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traveled |
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Two such as you...Cannot be
parted nor be swept away - Robert Frost |
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true love is
a durable fire - Sir Walter
Raleigh |
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Twice or thrice had I
loved thee - John Donne |
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Two human
loves make one divine - Elizabeth Browning |
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Unable are the
loved - Emily Dickinson |
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Upon that I
kiss your hand - William Shakespeare |
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We are one, one flesh -
John Milton |
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We cannot kindle when
we will - Matthew Arnold |
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We loved with
a love - Edgar Allen Poe |
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Were I as base as is the
lowly plain - Joshua Sylvester |
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Were you the
earth, dear Love, and I the skies - Joshua Sylvester |
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What are you to Love? -
Alexander Pope |
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What of Marriage? |
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What I do and what I dream include thee
- Elizabeth Browning |
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What is a friend? I
will tell you |
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What love is, if though
wouldst be taught - Friedrich Halm |
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What's earth with
all its art - Robert Browning |
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When
the wedding march sounds the resolute approach - Anne Lindbergh |
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What thou
and I did till we lov'd - John Donne |
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When you
love someone, you do not love them all the time - Anne Lindbergh |
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When you
start on your journey to Ithaca - Constantine P. Cavafy |
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Whoever lives true life -
Elizabeth Browning |
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You have become mine
forever - Hindu Marriage Poem |
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You
Never Fail to make me Smile - |
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Young
Bride-at wreath for thee, of Sweet and gentle flowers - Martin
Tupper |
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