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ON A CERTAIN SPINSTER WHO LINGERED IN CHURCH, by                    
First Line: Not hers the hungry gaze of souls unwed
Last Line: And needs must wait till each have said his prayer.
Subject(s): Churches; Despair; Prayer; Cathedrals


NOT hers the hungry gaze of souls unwed;
Not hers the cold and narrow barren bed:
Those virgin shoulders yet have pillowed men
Who through her ministry grew strong again.
She knows embraces both by night and day
Beyond all price of intermingling clay.
Man's weary cares upon her knees find rest,
His secret hopes are hanging at her breast;
Therefore if long before the cross she bend,
'Tis not that loneliness may find a friend,
But that she takes so many with her there,
And needs must wait till each have said his prayer.





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