'Twas summer, when softly the breezes were blowing, <br />And Hudson majestic so sweetly was flowing, <br />The groves rang with music & accents of pleasure <br />And nature in rapture beat time to the measure, <br />When Helen and Jonas, so true and so loving, <br />Along the green lawn were seen arm in arm moving, <br />Sweet daffodils, violets and roses spontaneous <br />Wherever they wandered sprang up instantaneous. <br />The ascent the lovers at length were seen climbing <br />Whose summit is grac'd by the temple of Hymen: <br />The genius presiding no sooner perceived them <br />But, spreading his pinions, he flew to receive them; <br />With kindest of greetings pronounced them well come <br />While hollidays clangor rang loud to the welkin.<br /><br />Henry Livingston Jr.<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/epithalamium-a-marriage-poem/
