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OLD ST. DAVID'S
"What an image of peace and rest."—Longfellow
Written by request of the Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Dames of America and read at Old St. David's, May 21, 1904
In Radnor Valley, from the world apart,
The little Church stands peaceful as of old,
Guarding her memories, yet half untold,
Deep in the silent places of her heart.
Life comes, and passes by her, as it wills;
But musing on loved things evanishèd,
She keeps the generations of the dead,—
Herself unchanged amid her beauteous hills:
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