In purest love these souls unite
That they with Christian care
May make domestic burdens light
By taking each a share.
Tune, “Lanesboro,” Mason.
A wedding hymn of more poetic beauty is the one written by Miss Dorothy Bloomfield (now Mrs. Gurney), born 1858, for her sister's marriage in 1883.
O perfect Love, all human thought transcending,
Lowly we kneel in prayer before Thy throne
That their's may be a love which knows no ending
Whom Thou forevermore dost join in one.