Felicia Hemans in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Volume 35 1834/A Church in North Wales

by Felicia Hemans

For other versions of this work, see Sonnets, Devotional and Memorial. XV. A Church in North Wales.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 35, Page 634

VIII.

A CHURCH IN NORTH WALES.

Blessings be round it still!—that gleaming fane,
    Low in its mountain-glen!—old mossy trees
Narrow the sunshine through th' untinted pane,
    And oft, borne in upon some fitful breeze,
    The deep sound of the ever-pealing seas,
Filling the hollows with its anthem-tone,
There meets the voice of psalms;—yet not alone
    For mansions, lulling to the heart as these,
I bless thee 'midst thy rocks, grey House of Prayer!
But for their sakes that unto thee repair,
    From the hill-cabins and the ocean shore:
Oh! may the fisher and the mountaineer
Words to sustain earth's toiling children hear,
    Within thy lowly walls for evermore!