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Lenten Thoughts Of A High Anglican

Isn't she lovely, "the Mistress"?

With her wide-apart grey-green eyes,

The droop of her lips and, when she smiles,

Her glance of amused surprise?

How nonchalantly she wears her clothes,

How expensive they are as well!

And the sound of her voice is as soft and

As the Christ Church tenor bell.

But why do I call her "the Mistress"Who know not her way of life?

Because she has more of a cared-for

Than many a legal wife.

How elegantly she swings

In the vapoury incense veil;

The angel choir must pause in

When she kneels at the altar rail.

The parson said that we shouldn't

Around when we come to church,

Or the Unknown God we are

May forever elude our search.

But I hope that the preacher will not

It unorthodox and

If I add that I glimpse in "the Mistress"A hint of the Unknown God.

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Sir John Betjeman

Sir John Betjeman CBE (/ˈbɛtʃəmən/; 28 August 1906 – 19 May 1984) was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster. He was Poet Laureate from 1972 u…

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