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by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889)

A Little Wedding Music
Language: English 
1. Entry of the Bride

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2. At the Wedding March

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

 Each be other's comfort kind:
 Deep, deeper than devined.
 Divine charity, dear charity,
 Fast you ever, fast bind.
 
 Then let the March tread our ears;
 I to him turn with tears
 Who to wedlock, his wonder wedlock,
 Deals triumph, triumph and immortal years.

3. March of the Newlyweds

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Text Authorship:

  • by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by István Anhalt (1919 - 2012), "A Little Wedding Music" [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 17
Word count: 83

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