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The Quiet Rural Church.

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It was a humble church, with arches low,     The church we entered there,     Where many a weary soul since long ago     Had past with plaint or prayer.     Mournful and still it was at day's decline,     The day we entered there;     As in a loveless heart, at the lone shrine,     The fires extinguished were.     Scarcely was heard to float some gentlest sound,     Scarcely some low breathed word,     As in a forest fallen asleep, is found     Just one belated bird.

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