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SONNET V.
WRITTEN NEAR BAYHAM-ABBEY, SUSSEX.
In ancient days of superstitious dread,When lordly abbots kept the world in fear;
When monkish craft his secret banquet spread,
Yet seem'd in outward penance most austere:
Yon cloister'd pile, by wealthy bigots fed,
With fretted roof was wont its porch to rear,
Where smothering ivy now is seen to braid
Each beetling fragment with its umbrage drear:
Disastrous change! yet, to the mental view,
More pleas'd such pomp in ruins I survey,
Than when in sainted guise the priestly crew
To drowsy vespers drag'd their loitering way;
More pleas'd with pious worth's unblazon'd deeds,
Than conclaves of grey cowls, or treasuries of beads.
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