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First Line: A shallow chancel, scarce six feet by ten
Last Line: The world's devotion by the chancel span.
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Christianity; Churches; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology


A SHALLOW chancel, scarce six feet by ten,
Which rail'd and painted forms a decent pen;
A lofty spire, which bears its glittering vane
Some hundred feet exalted from the plain;
Say, was this would-be Christian elevation
Built for devotion or for ostentation?
By the tall spire we gauge the pride of man,
The world's devotion by the chancel span.





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