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ST. PAUL'S AND WOOLWORTH by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: I STOOD ON THE PAVEMENT
Last Line: SAINT FRANK IN THE SUN!
Subject(s): ST. PAUL'S CATHERDRAL (NEW YORK CITY); WOOLWORTH, FRANK W. (1852-1919);
I STOOD on the pavement
Where I could admire
Behind the brown chapel
The cream and gold spire.

Above, gilded Lightning
Swam high on his ball --
I saw the noon shadow
The church of St. Paul.

And was there a meaning?
(My fancy would run),
Saint Paul in the shadow,
Saint Frank in the sun!



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