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,”