<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=518869" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Wedding</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O marriage-bells, your clamor tells<br> Two weddings in one breath.<br>SHE marries whom her love compels:<br> -- And I wed Goodman Death!<br>My brain is blank, my tears are red;<br>Listen, O God: -- &quot;I will,&quot; he said: --<br>And I would that I were dead.<br>Come groomsman Grief and bridesmaid Pain<br>Come and stand with a ghastly twain.<br>My Bridegroom Death is come o'er the meres<br>To wed a bride with bloody tears.<br>Ring, ring, O bells, full merrily:<br>Life-bells to her, death-bells to me:<br>O Death, I am true wife to thee!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sidney+Lanier">Sidney Lanier</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=518869" data-title="The Wedding de Sidney Lanier" data-description="O marriage-bells, your clamor tells Two weddings in one breath. SHE marries whom her love compels: -- And I wed Goodman Death! My brain is blank, my tears are red; Listen, O God: -- &quot;I will,&quot; he said: -- And I would that I were dead. C..."></div> </div> </div>

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