and I were married, I asked my friend Roger to read Robert Frost’s “A Prayer in Spring” at the ceremony. Roger had been with me in Kentucky, and it was there that I first came across this poem, which captures well what Cindy and the other kids had taught me. The poem begins: Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year After encouraging the reader to enjoy the orchards, bees, and birds surrounding her, the poem ends: For this is love and nothing else is love, The which it is
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