Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ON HER WEDDING DAY, by MONICA WILLIAMS


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ON HER WEDDING DAY, by                    
First Line: If I could wish for you one wish today
Last Line: More beautiful than in your wedding dress.
Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


If I could wish for you one wish today
That would in future years great joy unfold,
I would desire that you should learn to pray
Aright, the prayer that Jesus taught of old --
I would not ask from pain you might be free,
Or wealth or fame to bless you through the years;
I would not seek that you may still love me
Though love unloosed might drench my heart with tears.

For prayer alone can bring you all I ask --
A love that understands and binds each heart,
A strength to grace and mould each common task
And make them in your life the nobler part,
So then you will become through toil and stress
More beautiful than in your wedding dress.





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