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I stand within the Abbey walls	A
Where soft the slanting sunlight falls	A
In gleams of mellow grace	B
The organ swells the anthem soars	C
And waves of prayerful music pours	C
Throughout the solemn space	B
	-
Slowly the chanted yearning dies	D
Then spoken supplications rise	D
Upfloating to the sky	E
The organ peals anew again	F
Is silent and there linger then	F
Only my soul and I	E
	-
But what are these mute busts that gaze	G
On me from out the vanished days	G
And bid me pause and scan	H
Tablet inscription title date	I
All that records the vain estate	I
Of transitory man	H
	-
Read I aright And can it be	J
Old Abbey that dead bards in thee	J
A resting place have found	K
Is not this consecrated air	L
This is the house the home of prayer	L
This this is sacred ground	K
	-
And who were they Their fretful life	M
With heavenly precept was at strife	M
No pious peace they knew	N
Like thunderstorms against the wind	O
They pressed and from their lurid mind	O
Alarming lightnings flew	N
	-
Creeds were to them but chains to break	P
No formulas their thirst could slake	P
No faith their hunger feed	Q
Their prayers were breathed to unscaled crags	G
They worshipped where the eagle flags	G
And the snow streams flash and speed	Q
	-
Their temple was the earth the air	L
The stars that in night's silence share	L
Unto the plunging brine	R
Listening they heard a sacred hymn	S
And deep within the woodlands dim	S
Found transept aisle and shrine	R
	-
All shapes of sensuous beauty stole	T
A pathway to the poet's soul	T
An unresisting slave	U
To smiles that win to tears that melt	V
Whatever hearts can feel he felt	V
Whatever ask for gave	U
	-
His heart to love as quick he lent	W
As flower to wandering wind its scent	W
Or lark to sun its song	P
He spent himself in gusts of joy	X
Chased the fair phantoms that decoy	X
And youth's brief reign prolong	P
	-
Yet it was wise as well as just	Y
Not upon his rebellious dust	Y
The Abbey gates to close	G
But bid him hither wend and find	O
What life refused his eager mind	O
Glory and yet repose	G
	-
For should there come that threatened day	Z
When creeds shall fade when faith decay	Z
And worship shall have ceased	A2
Then when all formal guides shall fail	B2
Mankind will in the Poet hail	B2
A prophet and a priest	A2
	-
He will instruct us still to strain	C2
Towards something to redress our pain	C2
To elevate our joy	X
Something responding to that sense	G
Of restlessness that calls us hence	G
And makes existence cloy	X
	-
What though commandment dogma rite	D2
One after one shall perish quite	D2
The Poet still will keep	E2
The Sanctuary's lamp alight	D2
And in the body's deepest night	D2
Forbid the soul to sleep	E2
	-
Then apprehended right his lays	G
Shall seem a hymn of prayer and praise	G
To purify from stain	C2
Shall bridge with love the severed years	G
Instil the sacredness of tears	G
The piety of pain	C2
	-
Devotion at his touch shall wake	P
The fountains of emotion quake	P
With tenderness divine	R
His melody our cravings lift	F2
Upward and have the saving gift	F2
Of sacramental wine	R
	-
Let him then rest where now he lies	G
So that if narrower ritual dies	G
Devout feet still may come	G2
Confessing what his strains impart	H2
The deep religion of the heart	H2
That never will be dumb	G2

Alfred Austin

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