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O wedding guest! this soul hath been

Alone on a wide, wide sea:

So lonely 'twas, that God himself

Scarce seeméd there to be.

O sweeter than the marriage feast,

'Tis sweeter far to me,

To walk together to the kirk

With a goodly company!—

To walk together to the kirk,

And all together pray,

While each to his great Father bends,

Old man, and babes, and loving friends,

And youths and maidens gay!

Farewell! farewell! but this I tell

To thee, thou wedding guest!

He prayeth well, who loveth well

Both man and bird and beast.

He prayeth best, who loveth best

All things both great and small;

For the dear God who loveth us,

He made and loveth all.

S. T. Coleridge.