A Bright Day

Come daughter take the son in hand come husband take the wife

To have and hold the other through both harmony and strife

For richer or for poorer and in sickness or in health

For better or for worse the vows endure

Now gather friends and family come witnesses to love

As mothers and their sires have since the waters and the dove

And fasten here with kinship bonds a link between two homes

All binded up in lovers' oaths and strengthened by your own

It's a bright, bright day for a wedding

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