Stedman and Hutchinson, comps. A Library of American Literature:
An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891.
Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 1861–1889
The Old Abbeys
By Arthur Cleveland Coxe (18181896)Y
How few and far between,
The remnants of your glory
In all their pride are seen!
A thousand fanes are fallen,
And the bat and owl repose
Where once the people knelt them,
And the high Te Deum rose.
In the eyes of pious men,
And the baron hath his manor,
And the king his own again!
And again the bells are ringing
With a free and happy sound,
And again Te Deum riseth
In all the churches round.
That England long may be
The holy, and the happy,
And the gloriously free!
Who blesseth her, is blessed!
So peace be in her walls;
And joy in all her palaces,
Her cottages and halls!
Pray God for England, pray!
And chiefly, thou, my country,
In thy young glory’s day!
Pray God those times return not,
’Tis England’s hour of need!
Pray for thy mother—daughter,
Plead God for England—plead.