Slow winding through the moss-grown aisle;

The ring, the vow, the nuptial song—

From age a tear, from youth a smile.

A cot with jessamine-covered door,

A streamlet singing all the day,

And on the dew-bespangled floor

A thousand golden sunbeams play.

Gay groups of happy children there,

The old oak and the breathless swing,

The shouts of laughter on the air,