Some favorite saint of special grace—
The chestnuts floored and roofed and hung
Niche for my hero saint. Down-flung
From cedar tops, the wild woodbine
Lent pennons brave to deck the shrine;
Barbaric sumachs straight upbore
Their crimson lamps, and, light and hoar,—
Like votive lace bestowed by dame,
Repentant of her splendid shame,—
O’er withered shrub and brier and stone,