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EPITHALAMIUM ON THE MARRIAGE OF JAMES ADDIE AND JULIA WAKEFIELD, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! The festal cannons boom
Last Line: In hope thou wilt approve.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Happiness; Wedding Song; Joy; Delight; Epithalamium


HARK! the festal cannons boom:
Banish brooding, care, and gloom;
Happy looks and smiles assume
On this auspicious day:
Ringing cheers give welcome high,
Pealing guns give loud reply,
Streaming flags salute the sky
And on the breezes play.

Cease hot labour for a while;
Frolic round each flaming pile;
On each bronzed cheek a smile
Of pleased emotion glows:
Circling round the tow'ring flames,
Loud each jubilant cheer proclaims
Love and honour to the names
The nuptial bands enclose!

Hail and welcome, happy pair!
Manly form and lady fair:
Bright the home dear hands prepare;
Come, gentle lady, come.
To the verdant banks of Clyde,
Hand in hand, and side by side,
The bridegroom leads his gentle bride—
The angel of his home.

Home! sweet home, the gentle sway
Of sweet woman leads the way
To love and peace. Be yours, for aye,
A happy, blissful home.
Welcome as the flowers in May,
Lady, such is thine to-day;
Welcome, pure and bright as they,
With May's sweet blossoms come.

Loving welcomes, true and kind,
Lady, it is thine to find,
In the new-found ties that bind
In bonds of kindred love.
Lady, take the gift I bring—
Violet wreaths, the birth of spring,
Simple as the strain I sing,
In hope thou wilt approve.





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