C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

The Two Brides

I SAW two maids at the kirk,

And both were fair and sweet:

One in her wedding robe,

And one in her winding-sheet.

The choristers sang the hymn,

The sacred rites were read;

And one for life to Life,

And one to Death, was wed.

They were borne to their bridal beds

In loveliness and bloom;

One in a merry castle,

And one in a solemn tomb.

One on the morrow woke

In a world of sin and pain;

But the other was happier far,

And never awoke again.