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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE CORONATION, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: What memories haunt the venerable pile!
Last Line: Make the place sacred.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
First Line: What memories haunt the venerable pile!
Last Line: Make the place sacred.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
WHAT memories haunt the venerable pile!
It is the mighty treasury of the past,
Where England garners up her glorious dead.
The ancient chivalry are sleeping there --
Men who sought out the Turk in Palestine,
And laid the crescent low before the cross.
The sea has sent her victories: those aisles
Wave with the banners of a thousand fights.
There, too, are the mind's triumphs -- in those tomb?
Sleep poets and philosophers, whose light
Is on the heaven of our intellect.
The very names inscribed on those old walls
Make the place sacred.
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