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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO AN UNFINISHED CHURCH, by BEULAH H. LYON
First Line: Where once a simple dwelling stood, your walls
Last Line: Forbid your roof to ever shut god out!
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Churches; Cathedrals
First Line: Where once a simple dwelling stood, your walls
Last Line: Forbid your roof to ever shut god out!
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Churches; Cathedrals
Where once a simple dwelling stood, your walls
Half-finished yet, with stately promise rise.
Tall, tranquil pillars whitely emulate
Your future tower companioning the skies.
All day God's sunlight plays within those walls.
As yet no roof forbids its entrance there.
No murky, dim obscurity prevails
To make the builders' path a shade less clear.
Simple that sunlight is to bless and heal.
Heaven-sent, His breeze dispells the lingering doubt.
Ah, may the Spirit prisoned there within
Forbid your roof to ever shut God out!
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