Suggestions for good material for a reading at a non-religious wedding?

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answer:Personally, I love this poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay: Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink And rise and sink and rise and sink again; Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath, Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone; Yet many a man is making friends with death Even as I speak, for lack of love alone. It well may be that in a difficult hour, Pinned down by pain and moaning for release, Or nagged by want past resolution’s power, I might be driven to sell your love for peace, Or trade the memory of this night for food. It well may be. I do not think I would. It’s not necessarily funny or light-hearted but it is short enough to hold people’s attention and it’s sweet and an unexpected look at love. I’ll keep looking through my poetry books though. :)

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