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RIGHTLY dawns our wedding day; Joyous hour, we give thee greeting!
 * Whither, whither art thou fleeting?

Fickle moment, prithee stay!
 * What though mortal joys be hollow?
 * Pleasures come, if sorrows follow:

Though the tocsin sound, ere long,
 * Ding dong! Ding dong!
 * Yet until the shadows fall
 * Over one and over all,
 * Sing a merry madrigal—
 * Fal la!

Let us dry the ready tear;
 * Though the hours are surely creeping,
 * Little need for woeful weeping,

Till the sad sundown is near.
 * All must sip the cup of sorrow—
 * I to-day and thou to-morrow:

This the close of every song—
 * Ding dong! Ding dong!
 * What, though solemn shadows fall,
 * Sooner, later, over all?
 * Sing a merry madrigal—
 * Fal la!