Ne’er alas! her slumb’ring children
Give her earthly praise and homage.
Gone forever, church and pastor,
Gone, all gone, her saints’ communion,
Dust to dust the crumbling mortar,
Earth to earth the human body,
Air of air the ghostly phantoms,
Heav’n of heav’ns the final meeting.
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In this section, once a wildwood,