The Marriage of True Minds

In 1983, I was at a loss to write a song for our wedding. I pored through love poems and readings. One night during dinner I jumped from the table and wrote a song based upon a Shakespeare sonnet (#116). His words are copied below... they are truer for us now than they were when Sharon Martin sung them at our wedding. Gerry and I are recording a Blue Moon Revue CD -- I am hoping that Suzi Eldridge will sing a beautiful rendition of this wedding song.
(BTW -- a bark is a ship.)

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:

O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.


Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.


William Shakespeare