Monday, April 12, 2010

listen to this peom!!




I found this poem a few weeks ago and am now doing a theme essay on it.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Oft have I seen at some cathedral door




Oft have I seen at some cathedral door

A laborer, pausing in the dust and heat,

Lay down his burden, and with reverent feet

Enter, and cross himself, and on the floor
5Kneel to repeat his paternoster o'er;

Far off the noises of the world retreat;

The loud vociferations of the street

Become an undistinguishable roar.

So, as I enter here from day to day,
10 And leave my burden at this minster gate,

Kneeling in prayer, and not ashamed to pray,

The tumult of the time disconsolate

To inarticulate murmurs dies away,

While the eternal ages watch and wait.

God bless you

*Guin*

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