Ballads for the Times (Now first collected,) Geraldine, A Modern Pyramid, Bartenus, A Thousand Lines, and other poems. By Martin F. Tupper. A new Edition, enlarged and revised |
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Rebuilt.
A. D. 1849.
Ruin!—Ruin now no more,
To the Lord we thus restore
Thine old glories, holy place,
Consecrate again to grace:
Thine old glories shine again,
Sculptured stone, and jewell'd pane;
As a cross upon the hill,
Nave, quire, and aisles are mapp'd out still,
And thy Norman tower on high
Boldly stands against the sky.
To the Lord we thus restore
Thine old glories, holy place,
Consecrate again to grace:
Thine old glories shine again,
Sculptured stone, and jewell'd pane;
As a cross upon the hill,
Nave, quire, and aisles are mapp'd out still,
And thy Norman tower on high
Boldly stands against the sky.
Thanks to Him who blesseth us
That the Body riseth thus,—
Thanks to Him!—yet more we need
A resurrection rare indeed,
In this, and us, the Spirit-part
Flaming with a martyr's heart;
In old St. Martha's, thus made new
Religion's fervour, pure and true:
Send, O send that quickening might,
God of love, and life, and light!
That the Body riseth thus,—
Thanks to Him!—yet more we need
A resurrection rare indeed,
In this, and us, the Spirit-part
Flaming with a martyr's heart;
In old St. Martha's, thus made new
Religion's fervour, pure and true:
Send, O send that quickening might,
God of love, and life, and light!
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