Epithalamium

He is here, Uranias son,     Hymen come from Helicon;     God that glads the lovers heart,     He is here to join and part.     So the groomsman quits your side     And the bridegroom seeks the bride:     Friend and comrade yield you oer     To her that hardly loves you more.     Now the sun his skyward beam     Has tilted from the Ocean stream.     Light the Indies, laggard sun:     Happy bridegroom, day is done,     And the star from tas steep     Calls to bed but not to sleep.     Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings     All desired and timely things.     All whom morning sends to roam,     Hesper loves to lead them home.     Home return who him behold,     Child to mother, sheep to fold,     Bird to nest from wandering wide:     Happy bridegroom, seek your bride.     Pour it out, the golden cup     Given and guarded, brimming up,     Safe through jostling markets borne     And the thicket of the thorn;     Folly spurned and danger past,     Pour it to the god at last.     Now, to smother noise and light,     Is stolen abroad the wildering night,     And the blotting shades confuse     Path and meadow full of dews;     And the high heavens, that all control,     Turn in silence round the pole.     Catch the starry beams they shed     Prospering the marriage bed,     And breed the land that reared your prime     Sons to stay the rot of time.     All is quiet, no alarms;     Nothing fear of nightly harms.     Safe you sleep on guarded ground,     And in silent circle round     The thoughts of friends keep watch and ward,     Harnessed angels, hand on sword.