[Vwoolf] St Clement Danes wedding in 1937

[Stuart N. Clarke]

“St Clement Danes
has its duties to the living. As likely as not it is participating vociferously,
stridently, with almost frantic joy, but hoarsely as if its tongue
were rough with the rust of centuries, in the happiness of two living
mortals. A wedding is in progress. All down the Strand St Clement
Danes roars its welcome to the bridegroom in tail coat and grey trousers;
to the bridesmaids virginal in white; and finally to the bride herself
whose car draws up to the porch, and out she steps and passes undulating
with a flash of white finery into the inner gloom to make her
marriage vows to the roar of omnibuses, while outside the pigeons,
alarmed, sweep in circles, and Gladstone’s statue is crowded, like a
rock with gulls, with nodding, waving, enthusiastic sightseers.”
(L5 304)

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Longer version without sound:
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Stuart
(Day 386)
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