Three important births took place on this date in history: Hopkins in 1844, Beatrix Potter in 1866, and me in 19??. (A woman shouldn’t have to reveal her age on her own blog.)

At the Wedding March
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
GOD with honour hang your head,
Groom, and grace you, bride, your bed
With lissome scions, sweet scions,
Out of hallowed bodies bred.

Each be other’s comfort kind:
Deep, deeper than divined,
Divine charity, dear charity,
Fast you ever, fast bind.

Then let the March tread our ears:
I to him turn with tears
Who to wedlock, his wonder wedlock,
Deals triumph and immortal years.