STRANGE MARRIAGE
In his book, "Scalpel, Sword and Stretcher,” Colonel Robert J. Blackham, M.D., tells a good story of Dean Swift, the great satirist, who ended his tragic- career in the deanery of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin.
Dean Swift took shelter from a thunderstorm under a tree in St. Stephen’s Green, in Dublin, and there he found a young couple In great distress. They were on their way to bo married in a neighbouring church, and the latest hour when weddings could be celebrated was at hand, but there was no prospect of reaching the church ,in time, owing to the storm, which showed no signs of abatement. The poor prospective bride was in
tears, but as they happened to be I Protestants the Doan came to the | rescue. He read the marriage service over them, and, tearing the flyleaf from his Prayer Book, gave them their marriage lines in the following verse:— Under a tree in stormy weather I married this man and woman together; : Let none but lie Who rules the thunder* Part this man and woman asunder.
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Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18393, 29 July 1931, Page 5
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