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ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 43. KING'S COLLEGE CHAPEL(1), by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tax not the royal saint with vain expense
Last Line: That they were born for immortality.
Variant Title(s): Inside Of King's College Chapel, Cambridge;king's College Chapel;within King's College Chapel, Cambridge
Subject(s): Cambridge University


TAX not the royal Saint with vain expense,
With ill-matched aims the Architect who planned --
Albeit labouring for a scanty band
Of white robed Scholars only -- this immense
And glorious Work of fine intelligence!
Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore
Of nicely-calculated less or more;
So deemed the man who fashioned for the sense
These lofty pillars, spread that branching roof
Self-poised, and scooped into ten thousand cells,
Where light and shade repose, where music dwells
Lingering -- and wandering on as loth to die;
Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof
That they were born for immortality.






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