The Sepulchral Recesses: Andrewes

Still praying in thy sleep,
With lifted hands and face supine !
Meet attitude of calm and reverence deep,
Keeping thy marble watch in hallow'd shrine.

Thus, in thy Church's need,
Enshrin'd in ancient Liturgies,
Thy spirit shall keep watch and with us plead,
While from our secret cells thy prayers arise.

Still downward to decay
Our Church is hast'ning more and more ;
But what else need we but with thee to pray
That God may yet her treasures lost restore ?