Midnight Oil

While the maidens dance with their admiration for the groom the bride remains unseeing..., she does not recognize him who is hers... but the more she does not see him the more she describes him well, and so well that her anticipation grips her heart with its fist, and she calls for him to come to her but without voice because her heart is so tight with longing for him that it cannot breath. 

All the while her maidens dance and do not care for her pain at all, and some take actual pride in their advantage and fall to a blindness of their own in this - and how will they recover?  But others see her pain and slow their dancing and wonder at what they have to learn from her about her beloved and whether they have recognized him at all if they have not seen him through her eyes, and these will stand with her in the hour of her glory, for they sit up with the bride, even to midnight, and have filled their lamps with oil.