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THE CLIFF CHURCH: (WEMBURY) by JOHN GALSWORTHY

First Line: HERE STAND I
Last Line: TO ETERNITY!
Subject(s): CHURCHES; DEVONSHIRE, ENGLAND; CATHEDRALS;

HERE stand I,
Buttressed over the sea!
Time and sky
Take no toll from me.

To me, grey --
Wind-grey, flung with foam --
Ye that stray
Wild-foot, come ye home!

Mother, I --
Mother I will be!
Ere ye die,
Hear! O sons at sea!

Shall I fall --
Leave my flock of graves?
Not for all
Your rebelling waves!

I stand fast --
Let the waters cry!
Here I last
To Eternity!



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