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10 OLD BLANDFORD CHURCH
PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA
Was built in 1735
The following lines by an unknown author were found written on
its walls about 1841.
Thou art crumbling to the dust,
old pile,
Thou art hastening to thy fall,
And 'round thee in thy loneliness
Clings the ivy to thy wall.
The worshippers are scattered
How doth ambition's hope take
wing.
How droops the spirit now;
We hear the distant city's din,
The dead are mute below.
The sun that shone upon their
paths
Now gilds their lonely graves;
The zephyrs which once fanned
their brows
The grass above them waves.
now
Who knelt before thy shrine,
And silence reigns where anthems
rose,
In days of "Auld Lang Syne."
And sadly sighs the wandering
wind
Where oft in years gone by,
Prayers rose from many hearts
to Him
The Highest of the High;
The tramp of many a busy foot
That sought thy aisles is o'er,
And many a weary heart around
Is still forever more.
Oh! could we call the many back
Who've gathered here in vain-
Who've careless roved where we
do now,
Who'll never meet again;
How would our very hearts be
stirred
To meet the earnest gaze
Of the lovely and the beautiful
The lights of other days.
WM. E. LUM, JR., INC., PETERSBURG, VA.
COPYRIGHT 1910
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