Halloween Wedding Reading
Oct 29, 2013 07:26 PM Back
By Church of Ancient Ways
Edgar Alan Poe is beloved of all Gothic and Halloween fans. But to find a reading of his work that is appropriate for a wedding is no easy task. So if this is your task, look no further! I think I have just what you are looking for!
"Hand in hand about this valley, for fifteen years, roamed I with Eleonora before Love
entered within our hearts. It was one evening at the close of the third lustrum of her life, and
of the fourth of my own, that we sat, locked in each other's embrace, beneath the serpent-like
trees, and looked down within the water of the River of Silence at our images therein. We
spoke no words during the rest of that sweet day, and our words even upon the morrow were
tremulous and few. We had drawn the God Eros from that wave, and now we felt that he had
enkindled within us the fiery souls of our forefathers. The passions which had for centuries
distinguished our race, came thronging with the fancies for which they had been equally
noted, and together breathed a delirious bliss over the Valley of the Many-Colored Grass. A
change fell upon all things. Strange, brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burn out upon the trees
where no flowers had been known before. The tints of the green carpet deepened; and when,
one by one, the white daisies shrank away, there sprang up in place of them, ten by ten of the
ruby-red asphodel. And life arose in our paths; for the tall flamingo, hitherto unseen, with all
gay glowing birds, flaunted his scarlet plumage before us. The golden and silver fish haunted
the river, out of the bosom of which issued, little by little, a murmur that swelled, at length,
into a lulling melody more divine than that of the harp of Aeolus-sweeter than all save the
voice of Eleonora. And now, too, a voluminous cloud, which we had long watched in the
regions of Hesper, floated out thence, all gorgeous in crimson and gold, and settling in peace
above us, sank, day by day, lower and lower, until its edges rested upon the tops of the
mountains, turning all their dimness into magnificence, and shutting us up, as if forever,
within a magic prison-house of grandeur and of glory."
"Hand in hand about this valley, for fifteen years, roamed I with Eleonora before Love
entered within our hearts. It was one evening at the close of the third lustrum of her life, and
of the fourth of my own, that we sat, locked in each other's embrace, beneath the serpent-like
trees, and looked down within the water of the River of Silence at our images therein. We
spoke no words during the rest of that sweet day, and our words even upon the morrow were
tremulous and few. We had drawn the God Eros from that wave, and now we felt that he had
enkindled within us the fiery souls of our forefathers. The passions which had for centuries
distinguished our race, came thronging with the fancies for which they had been equally
noted, and together breathed a delirious bliss over the Valley of the Many-Colored Grass. A
change fell upon all things. Strange, brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burn out upon the trees
where no flowers had been known before. The tints of the green carpet deepened; and when,
one by one, the white daisies shrank away, there sprang up in place of them, ten by ten of the
ruby-red asphodel. And life arose in our paths; for the tall flamingo, hitherto unseen, with all
gay glowing birds, flaunted his scarlet plumage before us. The golden and silver fish haunted
the river, out of the bosom of which issued, little by little, a murmur that swelled, at length,
into a lulling melody more divine than that of the harp of Aeolus-sweeter than all save the
voice of Eleonora. And now, too, a voluminous cloud, which we had long watched in the
regions of Hesper, floated out thence, all gorgeous in crimson and gold, and settling in peace
above us, sank, day by day, lower and lower, until its edges rested upon the tops of the
mountains, turning all their dimness into magnificence, and shutting us up, as if forever,
within a magic prison-house of grandeur and of glory."
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