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First Line: Crowning a flowery slope, it stood alone
Last Line: Reigned there, the o'ershadowing spirit of the scene.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals


CROWNING a flowery slope, it stood alone
In gracious sanctity. A bright rill wound,
Caressingly, about the holy ground;
And warbled, with a never-dying tone,
Amidst the tombs. A hue of ages gone
Seemed, from that ivied porch, that solemn gleam
Of tower and cross, pale-quivering on the stream,
O'er all th' ancestral woodlands to be thrown --
And something yet more deep. The air was fraught
With noble memories, whispering many a thought
Of England's fathers: loftily serene,
They that had toiled, watched, struggled, to secure,
Within such fabrics, worship free and pure,
Reigned there, the o'ershadowing spirit of the scene.





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