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THE BALLAD OF GLASTONBURY

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« on: November 30, 2009, 03:17:11 am »

The strong man armed hath dwelt in peace
        Till a stronger hath sacked his home;
And the Church that married the pride of the earth
        By the earth is overcome:
There hath sounded forth upon the land
        That wicked king's behest,
And Lust and Power from Lust and Power
        A blighted triumph wrest.

XXVII


[Villanous doings for lucre's sake.]


The winds are high in Saint Michael's Tor,
        And a sorry sight is there--
A dark-browed band, with spear in hand,
        Mount up the turret-stair;
With heavy cheer and lifted palms
        There kneels a holy priest;
The fiends of death they grudge his breath,
        To hold their rapine-feast.

XXVIII.


[The judgement of God on England.]


The cloud comes on them, the vision is changed,
        And a crash of lofty walls,
And the short dead sound of music quenched,
        On the sickened hearing falls;
Quick and sharp is the ruin-cry--
        Unblest the ages glide;
And once again the mist from the plain
        Rolls up the Mendip side.

[XXIX]


[But in it He hath remembered mercy.]
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