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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 39. CHURCH TO BE ERECTED (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Be this the chosen site; the virgin soil
Last Line: That shall protect from blasphemy the land.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals
First Line: Be this the chosen site; the virgin soil
Last Line: That shall protect from blasphemy the land.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals
BE this the chosen site; the virgin sod,
Moistened from age to age by dewy eve,
Shall disappear, and grateful earth receive
The corner-stone from hands that build to God.
Yon reverend hawthorns, hardened to the rod
Of winter storms, yet budding cheerfully;
Those forest oaks of Druid memory,
Shall long survive, to shelter the Abode
Of genuine Faith. Where, haply, 'mid this band
Of daisies, shepherds sate of yore and wove
May-garlands, there let the holy altar stand
For kneeling adoration; -- while -- above,
Broods, visibly portrayed, the mystic Dove,
That shall protect from blasphemy the Land.
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