Attend!
Shall have you
Uncover and be still
For his own?
You present here
Do you?
In this
A holy place.
(Answer)
For we today
Shall marry here
And do you understand as well
This groom and bride
That by the customs of our race
And wish them well.
You pledge to him and only him
Rejoice!
Your kiss and your caress?
You line of struggling life
Do you? From aeons gone to now
For here again your track is sped
(Answer)
And winged into a future fate
A union of a man and bride
Well then
Whose child shall pace
Know that Life is stark
A further span
And often somewhat grim
Of Destiny
And tiredness
And Life.
And fret and pain
Forbear!
And sickness do beget
A state of mind where spring romance
For here shall be
Is far away and dead
No calumny
And yet for valor and for strength
You must abide and
Or whispered word against
Create still
Or Woman thouHis health, his purpose and repose.
For this the union you contract
Do you.
Does wipe away
All sorrow
(Answer)
Of the past.
And do you take
Speak out then now
His fortune
If any man
At its prime and ebb
Or girl would speak
And see
And say here a
With him his best fortune
Reason why
For us all?
These two should not
Do you? Be wed.
And silence heard
(Answer)
Does speak out plain
There’re none.
Good then Tam
I’m sure you will
So now
And surer yet you’ll fare
My Tam
Full well and staunchly
Stand steady here
As a wife.
Do you today intend
Now Jay listen well.
For him beside you there
The tides of fortune and of life
To be to him a wife!
Are sometimes fair or grim
And in this life the young man seeks
(Answer)
For victory afar
And often scants the fireside
And do you ken
And turns away from home’s sweet face
That Jay hereAnd thinks
His loved ones cannot fare
To keep her well or ill?
At allDo you?
Beside his side.
And thinking thus they go.
(Answer)
You know this.
Then be cautioned so
And when she’s older
And take thy ownDo you then
E’en though they sleep
Keep her still? Do you? Beneath foul straw
And eat
(Answer)
Thin bread
And walk a pavement less than kind
Now Jay, girls need clothes
And keep thy wife and they who come
And food and
Beside thy side.
Tender happiness and frills
Keep them, Jay, by your side
A pan, a comb, perhaps a cat
In rain or sleet
All caprice if you will
Or summer sun
But still
And comfort them
They need them.
And give them care
Do you then
And share with them thy life.
Provide?
For times are changed
Do you? And woman’s place
Is not a hearth or home
(Answer)
But striding out to victory
Beside her husband’s side.
Hear well, sweet Tam
This, Jay, is a modern world
For promise binds
And Man
Young men are free and may forget
Has changed.
Remind him then
But Jay let’s think on it well
That you may have
For if stands aught in you
Necessities and follies, too.
Of doubt
Now Jay!
That you can take and keep
Attend! And love her well this wife
Then stay your handDo you best man possess a ring?
And we shall sayJay take it please
No more,
And Tam
For fatal and of full tight bind
Your hand he will enclasp
Are these the words
We have it now.
I next will speak.
Repeat!
Shall I go on?
“I, Tam”
(Answer) (Answer)
“Do hereby take”
And you Tam listen well
(Answer)
And you, Jay answer swift
“You, Jay”
Prepared?
(Answer)
“For my husband”
(Answer) (Answer)
Jay, do you pledge to take
And, Jay
This woman for your lawful wife?
Do now repeat “I, Jay”
(Answer) (Answer)
“Do hereby take”
Do you, Jay Camp(Answer)
Make promise here
“You, Tam”
Before us all
(Answer)
“For my lawful wedded wife.
”Now Jay kiss your bride
(Answer)
And hug her well
And all of you
Put on the ring!
Come toast and drink
Rejoice all here
Their health
For we have wed
That it may last
Our Jay and our Tam
Until that day when death
And wish them well.
Itself,
The severer of all ties
All here repeat!
Shall end
Are they by witness
The thing which we have done
Man and wife?
Today.
(Answer)
Rejoice and go your many ways
Dismiss.
[The above Scientology Wedding Ceremony was originally issued as part of PAB 84, 15 May 1956, page 421]