The Oriole weds his mottled mate, The Lily weds the bee; Heaven's marriage ring is round the earth, Let me bind thee?

The speaker points to pairings in nature—birds mating, flowers and pollinators joined in a kind of mutual “marriage”—to argue that union is a pervasive, almost sacred principle. By calling the world’s cyclical, enclosing order “Heaven’s marriage ring,” the lines suggest that commitment is not merely a social contract but something mirrored in the natural and cosmic design. The closing question, “Let me bind thee?”, turns observation into proposal: the speaker seeks to translate the universal pattern of coupling into a personal bond, framing marriage as both inevitable and blessed, yet still requiring consent.