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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LITTLE CHURCH AROUND THE CORNER, by A. E. LANCASTER First Line: Bring him not here where our sainted feet Last Line: Some little church round the corner. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals | |||
"BRING him not here, where our sainted feet Are treading the path to glory; Bring him not here, where our Saviour sweet Repeats for us his story. Go, take him where such things are done (For he sat in the seat of the scorner), To where they have room, for we have none, -- To the little church round the corner." So spake the holy man of God, Of another man, his brother, Whose cold remains, ere they sought the sod, Had only asked that a Christian rite Might be read above them by one whose light Was, "Brethren, love one another;" Had only asked that a prayer be read Ere his flesh went down to join the dead, While his spirit looked with suppliant eyes, Searching for God throughout the skies. But the priest frowned "No," and his brow was bare Of love in the sight of the mourner, And they looked for Christ and found him -- where? In that little church round the corner. Ah! well, God grant when, with aching feet, We tread life's last few paces, That we may hear some accents sweet, And kiss, to the end, fond faces. God grant that this tired flesh may rest ('Mid many a musing mourner), While the sermon is preached and the rites are read In no church where the heart of love is dead, And the pastor's a pious prig at best, But in some small nook where God's confessed, -- Some little church round the corner. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VIRGIN IN GLASS by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF: 3. FEEDING THE RABBITS by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR EXPLICATION OF AN IMAGINARY TEXT by JAMES GALVIN DOMESDAY BOOK: FATHER WHIMSETT by EDGAR LEE MASTERS HALF-AND-HALF by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE AT THE CHURCH DOOR by GEORGE SANTAYANA THE OLD LYCEUM; FOURTH AVENUE AND 23RD STREET by A. E. LANCASTER |
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