| Walter Murdoch (1874–1970). The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse. 1918. |
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| 176. A Bridal Song |
| | | By Hugh McCrae |
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| SHE is more sparkling beautiful | |
| Than dawn-light seen thro’ tears | |
| The weeping worlds of Paradise | |
| Shed down upon the spheres. | |
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| Her eyes are bright and passionate | 5 |
| With love’s immortal flame— | |
| The flowers of a wildwood tree | |
| In petals write her name. | |
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| Her breath of life ’s so wondrous sweet | |
| The bees halt, in amaze, | 10 |
| Their streaming honey-laden fleet | |
| Above the meadow ways; | |
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| And every little singing thing | |
| Atween the breasted hill | |
| And God’s high-vaulted cloistering | 15 |
| Upraises with a will | |
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| Paeans of laud, and cheery chaunts | |
| Of her, who now is mine— | |
| Queen-Angel of angelic haunts | |
| Thro’ months of mead and wine. | 20 |
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