Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE REBUILDING, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS


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First Line: My house is builded, lord: build it anew!
Last Line: A better house erect.
Subject(s): Houses; Worship


My house is builded, Lord: build it anew!
Once more the timbers hew;
And all the firm foundation lay again
In love for Thee and men.

Reset the window-panes, so wrinkled now,
And make them clear as Thou.
Enlarge the hearth and magnify the door
For strangers and the poor.

Insert a closet dedicate to prayer
That I may meet Thee there;
And build a workshop, wheresoe'er it be,
That I may toil with Thee.

The mansion of my building, let it fall,
Unworthy, roof and wall;
And in its place, O heavenly Architect!
A better house erect.





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