A Vow Is Both a Promise and a Sign

June 25, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is weddings.

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A wedding poem that contains a wedding vow:

A vow is both a promise and a sign

That I am sure enough that this is true

To say it publicly, not just to you,

But to all those whose lives we here combine.

And so I vow to love you all my life,

To give you joy, for that is joy to me,

To be for you what I would have you be:

Each a home for each as man and wife.

I vow to give myself to that one self

Engendered by our mystical embrace,

And to nurture it through love and will.

For only thus we cross the inner gulf

That lies between our consciousness and grace,

Blessed by love, that makes good of all ill.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Weddings

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