“Bring the light, uplift and show its flame! I am doing the god’s service, see! I ma
“Bring the light, uplift and show its flame! I am doing the god’s service, see! I making his shrine to glow with tapers bright. O Hymen, king of marriage! blest is the bridegroom; blest am I also, the maiden soon to wed a princely lord in Argos. Hail Hymen, king of marriage!” Euripides’s The Trojan Women, v. 307-313. -- source link