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A Marriage Poem for Nora and Jamie George Johnston
North comes the sun for summer
a sending forth
of jubilant flame; he rays out
in regal splendour
nor is it a little he shines on
sweetly,
on all our faces at this wholly
new age-old event,
just the same event that Adam
and Eve
in new-formed innocence adorned
dear originals,
joining in amiable bands
yet blessed hands.
News, at the Border another
knitting together;
again, the genial game between
genders
played not for a paltry stake but restored
paradise
no less. Imagine aiming so high! truly
young Amity
need only shore against
his own too much,
his generous fame and equally
gentle name.
Genius of the day, may he
delaying not
now pour a full blessing
on our pair
their nuptial joys well begun, Jamie and Nora made one.
Copyright © George Johnson, 1990.
Originally published in Endeared by Dark: reprinted by permission
of the author.
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