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14 THE CHILDREN OF
(There full a hundred years had it stood,) was embellished
with blossoms.
Like to the patriarch hoary, the sage of his kith and the
hamlet,
Who on his birth-day is crowned by children and children’s
children,
So stood the ancient prophet, and mute with his pencil of
iron
Marked on the tablet of stone, and measured the
swift-changing moment,
While all around at his feet, an eternity slumbered in quiet.
Also the church within was adorned, for this was the
season
In which the young, their parents’ hope, and the
loved-ones of heaven,
Should at the foot of the altar renew the vows of their
baptism.
Therefore each nook and corner was swept and cleaned,
and the dust was
Blown from the walls and ceiling, and from the oil-painted
benches.
There stood the church like a garden; the Feast of the
Leafy Pavilions*
Saw we in living presentment. From noble arms on the
church wall
Grew forth a cluster of leaves, and the preacher’s pulpit
of oak-wood
Budded once more anew, as aforetime the rod before Aaron.
Wreathed thereon was the Bible with leaves, and the dove,
washed with silver,
• The Feast of the Tabernacles; in Swedish, LofhyddoKogtiden, the Leaf-huts’-
high-tide.
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