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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 17. PLACES OF WORSHIP, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: As star that shines dependent upon star
Last Line: Find solace which a busy world disdains.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals
First Line: As star that shines dependent upon star
Last Line: Find solace which a busy world disdains.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals
AS star that shines dependent upon star
Is to the sky while we look up and love;
As to the deep fair ships which though they move
Seem fixed, to eyes that watch them from afar;
As to the sandy desert fountains are,
With palm-groves shaded at wide intervals,
Whose fruit around the sun-burnt Native falls
Of roving tired or desultory war --
Such to this British Isle her Christian Fanes,
Each linked to each for kindred services;
Her Spires, her Steeple-towers with glittering vanes
Far-kenned, her Chapels lurking among trees,
Where a few villagers on bended knees
Find solace which a busy world disdains.
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