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POEMS.
Beyond obnoxious dust and heat,
By ancient elms surrounded,
An edifice unique and neat
As choice suburban country-seat
Its patroness hath founded,
In whose calm Sabbath-like retreat
From choir and organ anthems sweet
Of praise have long resounded.
By ancient elms surrounded,
An edifice unique and neat
As choice suburban country-seat
Its patroness hath founded,
In whose calm Sabbath-like retreat
From choir and organ anthems sweet
Of praise have long resounded.
A vast symmetric pile, ornate
With arch and cantalever,
With tiles antique that tessellate
The spacious roof elaborate;
And spire suggesting ever
A thought of Him supremely great
Who doth approve and stimulate
Each nobly-meant endeavor.
With arch and cantalever,
With tiles antique that tessellate
The spacious roof elaborate;
And spire suggesting ever
A thought of Him supremely great
Who doth approve and stimulate
Each nobly-meant endeavor.
Rare arabesques like raveled lace,
From architrave to ceiling,
Embellish niches that encase
Fair cherubim, in classic grace
The sculptor's art revealing,
That overlook the chancel-space
Like sentinels to guard the place
When waiting saints are kneeling.
From architrave to ceiling,
Embellish niches that encase
Fair cherubim, in classic grace
The sculptor's art revealing,
That overlook the chancel-space
Like sentinels to guard the place
When waiting saints are kneeling.
