[ With The Wedding Ring ] Poem by Zyw Zywa

[ With The Wedding Ring ]

With the wedding ring

he promises his body --


to her, to serve her.

Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Topic(s) of this poem: marriage,wedding
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
The 'Book of Common Prayer' (second version,1552) prescribes that at a marriage the groom puts the wedding ring upon the fourth finger of the woman's left hand and thereby says: With this ring I thee wedde; with my body I thee worship; and with all my worldly goodes I thee endow --- Collection 'Love Mind and Death'
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