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Wishing someone on their wedding anniversary is like sharing their happiness. Wherever a couple celebrates its wedding anniversary, the people close to them wish them a joyful and long lasting relationship in the future as well. Khalil Gibran, on the institution of marriage and unique bonding between two hearts, once said "marriage is where you were born together, and together you shall be forevermore." Celebrating the years of togetherness in marriage, in the form of anniversaries, amounts to celebrating the bonding between two hearts. The poem 'Happy Tenth Anniversary', by Barry Taylor, is an elaboration of celebration of tenth anniversary and blessings that one showers on the celebrating couple on such an occasion.
Happy Tenth Anniversary
Happy Tenth! A milestone that seems
As natural as stones upon a hill,
Placed by wind and rain and swollen streams
Plunging down to work their wayward will.
Yet our will alone has placed this stele
That stands amid the wilderness of time,
Each choosing each, each day that we might feel
Nearer to a grace we can't define.
The loves that last are cultivated flowers:
Half pure mystery, half purely ours.
