The Wiccamical Chaplet a selection of original poetry; comprising smaller poems, serious and comic; classical trifles; sonnets; inscriptions and epitaphs; songs and ballads; mock-heroics, epigrams, fragments, &c. &c. Edited by George Huddesford |
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ON A CHAPEL Built at Windsor Lodge by William Duke of Cumberland,
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ON A CHAPEL Built at Windsor Lodge by William Duke of Cumberland,
which his Successor at the Lodge intended to convert into a Concert Room.
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The Chapel is circular, with an Arcade of Columns to the South, lighted by three Windows, and finished with a Dome.
“Build me, to grace my lov'd Retreat,
“A Chapel for devotion meet.
“A perfect Circle let it be;
“The emblem of Eternity:
“Firm as our Faith the hallow'd Fane
“Let Columns on the South sustain:
“And elevate its swelling Dome
“Tow'rds Heav'n, the faithful Christian's home:
“In number let its Lights be Three,
“Type of the Blessed Trinity.”
“A Chapel for devotion meet.
“A perfect Circle let it be;
“The emblem of Eternity:
“Firm as our Faith the hallow'd Fane
“Let Columns on the South sustain:
“And elevate its swelling Dome
“Tow'rds Heav'n, the faithful Christian's home:
“In number let its Lights be Three,
“Type of the Blessed Trinity.”
Thus William spoke: and, at his nod,
Arose the Temple to his God.
Approving Heaven beheld the Shrine,
And chang'd the Mortal to divine.—
Him Hal succeeded who, ere long,
Gave up Devotion for a Song.
And now the Place is set apart
To sooth the Ear, not mend the Heart.
Arose the Temple to his God.
Approving Heaven beheld the Shrine,
And chang'd the Mortal to divine.—
Him Hal succeeded who, ere long,
Gave up Devotion for a Song.
And now the Place is set apart
To sooth the Ear, not mend the Heart.
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