Religion
The North Transept: The Psalms I
From The Cathedral (1838; ed. W. Benham, 1889)
Not to those heights where holy Herbert sits,
Or Heaven-taught Ken awakes the sounding wire,
Nor where beyond the shade of Ambrose flits
O'er sacred streams, or leaning o'er the lyre
Peace-loving Nazianzen leads the quire, —
Not to those haunts where saintly men have trod,
And hung their harps, but further yet and higher,
Where Siloa's stream, woke by th' unearthly rod,
Springs forth a fountain pure beneath the mount of God.
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Williams, Isaac. “The North Transept: The Psalms I.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/williams_isaac/58/.
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Williams, Isaac. “The North Transept: The Psalms I.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/williams_isaac/58/.
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