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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 40. CHURCH TO BE ERECTED (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Mine ear has rung, my spirit sunk subdued
Last Line: Creep round its arms through centuries unborn.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals
First Line: Mine ear has rung, my spirit sunk subdued
Last Line: Creep round its arms through centuries unborn.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals
MINE ear has rung, my spirit sunk subdued,
Sharing the strong emotion of the crowd,
When each pale brow to dread hosannas bowed
While clouds of incense mounting veiled the rood,
That glimmered like a pine-tree dimly viewed
Through Alpine vapours. Such appalling rite
Our Church prepares not, trusting to the might
Of simple truth with grace divine imbued;
Yet will we not conceal the precious Cross,
Like men ashamed: the Sun with his first smile
Shall greet that symbol crowning the low Pile:
And the fresh air of incense-breathing morn
Shall wooingly embrace it; and green moss
Creep round its arms through centuries unborn.
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