Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ST. PAUL'S AND WOOLWORTH, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY



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First Line: I stood on the pavement
Last Line: Saint frank in the sun!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): St. Paul's Catherdral (new York City); Woolworth, Frank W. (1852-1919)


I STOOD on the pavement
Where I could admire
Behind the brown chapel
The cream and gold spire.

Above, gilded Lightning
Swam high on his ball --
I saw the noon shadow
The church of St. Paul.

And was there a meaning?
(My fancy would run),
Saint Paul in the shadow,
Saint Frank in the sun!





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