Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, COMPOSED IN ROSLIN CHAPEL DURING A STORM, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH



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First Line: The wind is now thy organist; - a clank
Last Line: Though mute, of all things blending into one.


THE wind is now thy organist; -- a clank
(We know not whence) ministers for a bell
To mark some change of service. As the swell
Of music reached its height, and even when sank
The notes, in prelude, ROSLIN! to a blank
Of silence, how it thrilled thy sumptuous roof,
Pillars, and arches, -- not in vain time-proof,
Though Christian rites be wanting! From what bank
Came those live herbs? by what hand were they sown
Where dew falls not, where rain-drops seem unknown?
Yet in the Temple they a friendly niche
Share with their sculptured fellows, that, green-grown,
Copy their beauty more and more, and preach,
Though mute, of all things blending into one.





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