Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XXIII

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)



Nor later, when with her my childhood died,
Was life less sealed to me. The Church became
My guardian next and mother deified,
Who lit within me a more subtle flame
Of constancy, and clothed me in her mood.
No sound, no voice within that sanctuary
Told me of common evil. Unsubdued
And vast and strange, a thing from which to flee,
The world lay there without us. We within,
Fenced in and folded safe in our strong home,
Knew nothing of the sorrow and the sin.
'Tis no small matter to have lived in Rome,
In the Church's very bosom and abode,
Cloistered and cradled there, a child of God.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme ABABCDADEFEFGH
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 583
Words 113
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14

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