When a merry maiden marries, <br />Sorrow goes and pleasure tarries; <br />Every sound becomes a song, <br />All is right and nothing's wrong! <br />From to-day and ever after <br />Let your tears be tears of laughter - <br />Every sigh that finds a vent <br />Be a sigh of sweet content! <br />When you marry merry maiden, <br />Then the air with love is laden; <br />Every flower is a rose, <br />Every goose becomes a swan, <br />Every kind of trouble goes <br />Where the last year's snows have gone; <br />Sunlight takes the place of shade <br />When you marry merry maid! <br /> <br />When a merry maiden marries <br />Sorrow goes and pleasure tarries; <br />Every sound becomes a song, <br />All is right, and nothing's wrong. <br />Gnawing Care and aching Sorrow, <br />Get ye gone until to-morrow; <br />Jealousies in grim array, <br />Ye are things of yesterday! <br />When you marry merry maiden, <br />Then the air with joy is laden; <br />All the corners of the earth <br />Ring with music sweetly played, <br />Worry is melodious mirth, <br />Grief is joy in masquerade; <br />Sullen night is laughing day - <br />All the year is merry May!<br /><br />William Schwenck Gilbert<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/when-a-merry-maiden-marries/
