O'ERSHADOWED by the walls that climb, Piled up in air by living hands, A rock amid the waves of time, Our gray old house of worship stands. High o'er the pillared aisles we love The symbols of the past look down; Unharmed, unharming, throned above, Behold the mitre and the crown! Let not our younger faith forget The loyal souls that held them dear; The prayers we read their tears have wet, The hymns we sing they loved to hear. The memory of their earthly throne Still to our holy temple clings, But here the kneeling suppliants own One only Lord, the King of kings. Hark! while our hymn of grateful praise The solemn echoing vaults prolong, The far-off voice of earlier days Blends with our own in hallowed song: To Him who ever lives and reigns, Whom all the hosts of heaven adore, Who lent the life his breath sustains, Be glory now and evermore! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...NEW YEAR'S DAWN - BROADWAY by SARA TEASDALE THE LITTLE BLACK BOY, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE by WILLIAM BLAKE THE CONFESSIONAL by ROBERT BROWNING WAR IS KIND: 12 by STEPHEN CRANE IN HOSPITAL: 23. MUSIC by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY HE MOURNS FOR THE CHANGE THAT HAS COME UPON HIM AND BELOVED by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS INVITATION by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS PENISKEE by THOMAS GOLD APPLETON THE LAY OF SAINT MEDARD; A LEGEND OF AFRIC by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM |