Unto my childhood’s church I’ll go

And bow my head to that low door

I passed through standing long ago.

I’ll sit in the accustomed place

And make, whilst all the unlearned stare

A mournful atheistic face

At their vain noise of unheard prayer.

Then whilst they hymn the heavenly birth

And angel-voices from the skies,

My thoughts shall go where Weimar’s earth