Sara Teasdale, the contemporary poet, has become a favorite author to express lovely sentiments in wedding ceremony scripts:
To-night I close my eyes and see
A strange procession passing me —
The years before I saw your face
Go by me with a wistful grace;
They pass, the sensitive shy years,
As one who strives to dance, half blind with tears.
The years went by and never knew
That each one brought me nearer you;
Their path was narrow and apart
And yet it led me to your heart —
Oh sensitive shy years, oh lonely years,
That strove to sing with voices drowned in tears.
— Sara Teasdale
