A few lines against the opening of the Crystal Palace on the Sabbath day

Transcribed from the 1853 John Farquhar Shaw edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org Many thanks to the British Library for allowing their copy to be consulted for this transcription.
Against opening the Crystal Palace
THE SABBATH DAY .
BY JOHN ELWIN WRENCH.
LONDON: JOHN FARQUHAR SHAW, 27, SOUTHAMPTON ROW; AND 21, PATERNOSTER ROW.
1853.
London: Walton and Mitchell, Printers, 24, Wardour Street.
Chiming from the old church tow’r ’Tis the Sabbath bell I hear; Welcome is the sound to me; Welcome to the Christian’s ear.
Think not lightly of its knell! Let devotion fill each heart, Sacred let this day be kept; For our God ’tis set apart.
Ye who work for daily bread, Cease from toil with one accord,— Is one day too much to give, To the service of the Lord?
Though a Crystal Palace rears High o’er Sydenham’s plain her head; Destin’d, may we hope at least, Blessings o’er our land to shed.
Echo’d though thy wealth shall be, Monument of England’s fame! Shining forth in all thy pride, Worthy of a Paxton’s name.