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Dean Stanley.
BURIED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, JULY 27TH, 1881.
Bury the Dean where each familiar grave
Opens in rival welcome for the guest
Who quickened gloriously its dust, who best
In chapel dim, dark cloister's hoary nave,
Lit the gold lamps of history, and gave
His nation's shrine a record to attest,
That there in grateful honour lies at rest
The wise in truth, in deed the nobly brave.
Opens in rival welcome for the guest
Who quickened gloriously its dust, who best
In chapel dim, dark cloister's hoary nave,
Lit the gold lamps of history, and gave
His nation's shrine a record to attest,
That there in grateful honour lies at rest
The wise in truth, in deed the nobly brave.
Bury the Dean, and let no stinted praise
Fall from the lips of men he soared above,
Unfettered, striving still to reconcile
Creeds past and present in the life of love,
Else will the Dead he championed throng the aisle,
And the Great Ghosts loud acclamation raise.
Fall from the lips of men he soared above,
Unfettered, striving still to reconcile
Creeds past and present in the life of love,
Else will the Dead he championed throng the aisle,
And the Great Ghosts loud acclamation raise.
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