Wedding Blessings

THE CONFIRMATION

by Edwin Muir 1943

(From Oxford Book of Marriage - compiled by Helge Rubenstein.)

Yes, yours, my love, is the right human face.

I in my mind had waited for this long,

Seeing the false and searching for the true,

Then found you as a traveller finds a place

Of welcome suddenly amid the wrong

Valleys and rocks and twisting roads. But you,

What shall I call you? A fountain in a waste,

A well of water in a country dry,

Or anything that's honest and good, an eye

That makes the whole world bright. Your open heart,

Simple with giving, gives the primal deed,

The first good world, the blossom, the blowing seed,

The hearth, the steadfast land, the wandering sea,

Not beautiful or rare in every part,

But like yourself, as they were meant to be.

I chose this because it seemed to say it all - many, many blessings to you,

Faucon and Emrys, on your most special of days....Monika.