A blessing
For John and Jessica Dunnet
He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.
The Song of Songs which is Solomon’s, 2: 4
Some say marriages are made in heaven
While others all their lives for love have striven;
But you have found in each the joy supremely human:
Long may our several lives its light illumine.
Though rains may tumble down and storms dismay you
This love will bear you up, will not betray you,
Whatever perils may rise up to bar you,
For hand-in-hand your way is strait and narrow.
Of all the blessings planned on you bestowing
Your children all around in fullness growing.
Young life springs up anew each new day dawning
Like flowers in the dew of a spring morning.
Whom God has joined as one let no one sunder,
The still small voice of love drowns out the thunder.
This day lives in us all and we will treasure
Its memory long since, our hearts to pleasure.
So blessings on you both, this great step taking,
Vows, you remind us all, we should be taking.
Like Solomon of old, the love we give each other
Reflects the love of God, there is no other.
September 3, 1994
Sadly, the marriage for which this song was first composed ended in divorce. So it goes (Kurt Vonnegut).
