To mar the beauty of her holiness,

And all the nations which His blood shall sprinkle

The bride and bridegroom shall alike confess;

Forever one the twain;

Forevermore their reign! (Text.)

(446)

CHURCH, THE COUNTRY

J. S. Cheavens remembers the church in the country in a poem, of which a part is here given:

In pillar’d aisles of vast cathedrals old,

Ablaze with splendor, garish gilt and gold,