Diverse but ever dear, out of the dark

Behind the altar into the broad day

By the portal—enter, and, concede there mocks

Each lover of free motion and much space

A perplexed length of apse and aisle and nave,—

Pillared roof and carved screen, and what care I?—

Which irk the movement and impede the march,—

Nay, possibly, bring flat upon his nose

At some odd breakneck angle, by some freak

Of old-world artistry, that personage