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ON A NEW CHURCH, ERECTED A.D. 1842.
A shallow chanel, scarce six feet by ten,Which rail'd and painted forms a decent pen;
A lofty spire, which bears its glittering vane
Some hundred feet exalted from the plain;
Say, was this would-be Christian elevation
Built for devotion or for ostentation?
By the tall spire we gauge the pride of man,
The world's devotion by the chancel span.
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