Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SUNRISE AT ST. LAURENCE CHURCH, by SUSIE E. WILSON


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SUNRISE AT ST. LAURENCE CHURCH, by                    
First Line: Night hangs her sable curtain in the sky
Last Line: Are made into one body by the light of god.
Subject(s): Churches; Dawn; Night; Cathedrals; Sunrise; Bedtime


Night hangs her sable curtain in the sky.
There in the East thick clouds are massed,
Tinged with bright gold and crimson.
Stronger and stronger grows the light --
Bright, darting rays -- the heralds of the Sun,
Shoot from the changing cloud.
And lo! A little rift within the cloud
Appears, and wider grows, and wider still,
And tinged with golden light.
Till suddenly the curtain is flung back,
And through the gate, golden and grand,
The chariot of Apollo comes.
Straight on he comes with headlong speed --
To left and right his heralds pierce the cloud,
And turn to rainbow colors all the gloom.
One golden ray comes shining through
The window of the church across the way.

Behold, a miracle! Man made the glass
Of colors seven, to typify the children of the Sun,
But God has made a thousand shades of light
Out of the seven -- and all are one.
Even so the churches seven, with all
Their thousand shades of character,
Are made into one body by the light of God.





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