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VIII. BOSTON CHURCH TOWER.
Above the Egyptian plain, the earliest rayStruck tune from the Colossus, shepherds feared,
And those rude boatmen of the Nile, who steered
The monoliths, warped northward in dismay.
But thou, great Christian Memnon—all the day
In silver iterations thou art heard
Insisting on the hours. The hinds are cheered,
And sailors go rejoicing on their way.
High-crowned thou sittest o'er the listening leas,
Thy moveless feet wreathed round with shifting sand;
A beacon true to men who plough the seas,
A tower of hope to men who till the land;
Wide fields and waters lie beneath thy care,
For leagues thy guardian presence haunts the air.
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