What is there for me but your decay and death ? And therefore I have bidden these funeral-friends , and bespoken the sexton 's deepest knell , and am come in my shroud to wed you as with a burial-service , that we may join our hands at the door of the sepulchre and enter it together . '' It was not frenzy , it was not merely the drunkenness of strong emotion in a heart unused to it , that now wrought upon the bride . The stern lesson of the day had done its work ; her worldliness was gone . She seized the bridegroom 's hand . `` Yes ! '' cried she ; `` let us wed even at the door of the sepulchre . My life is gone in vanity and emptiness , but at its close there is one true feeling . It has made me what I was in youth : it makes me worthy of you . Time is no more for both of us . Let us wed for eternity . '' With a long and deep regard the bridegroom looked into her eyes , while a tear was gathering in his own . How strange that gush of human feeling from the frozen bosom of a corpse ! He wiped away the tear , even with his shroud . `` Beloved of my youth , '' said he , `` I have been wild . The despair of my whole lifetime had returned at once and maddened me . Forgive and be forgiven . Yes ; it is evening with us now , and we have realized none of our morning dreams of happiness . But let us join our hands before the altar as lovers whom adverse circumstances have separated through life , yet who meet again as they are leaving it and find their earthly affection changed into something holy as religion . And what is time to the married of eternity ? ''
Amid the tears of many and a swell XXXXX exalted sentiment in those who felt aright was solemnized the union of two immortal souls .
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