Stood a vast pair of candlesticks in gold!

With candles tall, and large, and firm, and white.

Such as the halls of giant-kings would light.

There was an organ, too, but now unseen;

A long black curtain served it for a screen;

Not so the clock that, both by night and day,

Click’d the short moments as they pass’d away. 360

“Is this a church? and does the parson read”—

Said Peter—“here?—I mean, a church indeed?”—

“Indeed it is, or as a church is used,”