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A Pew in a House.(Poem)
A PEW IN A HOUSE Gaunt and severe as the gaze of any elder, From a kirk like the one I knew This pew now in a suburban house Is jetsam and relic. Aloof, it forbids use, An unbending Presbyterian. Captive, bearing mute witness To a frivolous, ungodly people. Its wood rubbed by work-- Devotion, faith, supplication, doubt. Too hard for ease This seat had to be endured. Its first lesson: still the body. This hardness then harness For the collar-proud soul but then It ached: all those hours! Wasted hours! Words hammering down, over, upon us, Pleading, exhorting, bullying a congregation While ...
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