Helpmeet

I had nonesuch expectation

While whiling my time into spindly threads

That upon your auspicious visitation

We, two, one day would be wed.


Towards a new and brighter morn,

With your warm press upon me.

We are making time and timing our servant

With many pasts shorn.


With life we will move

All of our motions declare

And how in your cove

A new life is prepared.


Take heart, take heed, a blessed re-union

I will laud you, defend you, uphold you;

My life I will lay for you.

We begin our marital communion.