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First Line: Blessings be round it still! That gleaming fane
Last Line: Within thy lowly walls, for evermore!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Churches; Wales; Cathedrals; Welshmen; Welshwomen


BLESSINGS be round it still! that gleaming fane,
Low in its mountain-glen! Old, mossy trees
Mellow the sunshine through the 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 memories lulling to the heart as these,
I bless thee, 'midst thy rocks, gray house of prayer!
But for their sakes who 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!





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