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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HYSSOP, by MICHAEL T. H. SADLER Poet's Biography
First Line: I built a house of crazy rods
Last Line: Of tears for things that might have been.
Subject(s): Oxford University
First Line: I built a house of crazy rods
Last Line: Of tears for things that might have been.
Subject(s): Oxford University
I BUILT a house of crazy rods;
I lost a diamond in the crypt
Of that great church upon the down;
I heard men crying to their gods;
I saw a troop of women, stript
Skin-naked, weeping through the town.
My house has tottered to its fall;
My jewel lies among the dust
Of powdered bones; my eyes have seen
The glittering emblems in the tall
Cathedrals tarnished by the rust
Of tears for things that might have been.
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