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Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part III. - XVIII - Pastoral Character

William Wordsworth
A genial hearth, a hospitable board,
And a refined rusticity, belong
To the neat mansion, where, his flock among,
The learned Pastor dwells, their watchful Lord.
Though meek and patient as a sheathed sword;...
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Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part III. - XVII - Places Of Worship

William Wordsworth
As star that shines dependent upon star
Is to the sky while we look up and love;
As to the deep fair ships which though they move
Seem fixed, to eyes that watch them from afar;...
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Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part III. - XX - Baptism

William Wordsworth
Dear be the Church, that, watching o'er the needs
Of Infancy, provides a timely shower
Whose virtue changes to a Christian Flower
A Growth from sinful Nature's bed of weeds!...
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Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part III. - XXII - Catechising

William Wordsworth
From Little down to Least, in due degree,
Around the Pastor, each in new-wrought vest,
Each with a vernal posy at his breast,
We stood, a trembling, earnest Company!
With low soft murmur, like a distant bee,...
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Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part III. - XXIII - Confirmation

William Wordsworth
The Young-ones gathered in from hill and dale,
With holiday delight on every brow:
'Tis passed away; far other thoughts prevail;
For they are taking the baptismal Vow...
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Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part III. - XXI - Sponsors

William Wordsworth
Father! to God himself we cannot give
A holier name! then lightly do not bear
Both names conjoined, but of thy spiritual care
Be duly mindful: still more sensitive
Do Thou, in truth a second Mother, strive...
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Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part III. - XXIV - Confirmation Continued

William Wordsworth
I saw a Mother's eye intensely bent
Upon a Maiden trembling as she knelt;
In and for whom the pious Mother felt
Things that we judge of by a light too faint:...
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Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part III. - XXIX - The Commination Service

William Wordsworth
Shun not this Rite, neglected, yea abhorred,
By some of unreflecting mind, as calling
Man to curse man, (thought monstrous and appalling.)
Go thou and hear the threatenings of the Lord;...
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Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part III. - XXVIII - Visitation Of The Sick

William Wordsworth
The Sabbath bells renew the inviting peal;
Glad music! yet there be that, worn with pain
And sickness, listen where they long have lain,
In sadness listen. With maternal zeal...
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Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part III. - XXVII - Thanksgiving After Childbirth

William Wordsworth
Woman! the Power who left his throne on high,
And deigned to wear the robe of flesh we wear,
The Power that thro' the straits of Infancy
Did pass dependent on maternal care,...
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Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part III. - XXVI - The Marriage Ceremony

William Wordsworth
The Vested Priest before the Altar stands;
Approach, come gladly, ye prepared, in sight
Of God and chosen friends, your troth to plight
With the symbolic ring, and willing hands...
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Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part III. - XXV - Sacrament

William Wordsworth
By chain yet stronger must the Soul be tied:
One duty more, last stage of this ascent,
Brings to thy food, mysterious Sacrament!
The Offspring, haply, at the Parent's side;...
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Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part III. - XXX - Forms Of Prayer At Sea

William Wordsworth
To kneeling Worshipers no earthly floor
Gives holier invitation than the deck
Of a storm-shattered Vessel saved from Wreck
(When all that Man could do availed no more)...
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Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part III. - XXXI - Funeral Service

William Wordsworth
From the Baptismal hour, thro' weal and woe,
The Church extends her care to thought and deed;
Nor quits the Body when the Soul is freed,
The mortal weight cast off to be laid low....
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Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part III. - XXXIII - Regrets

William Wordsworth
Would that our scrupulous Sires had dared to leave
Less scanty measure of those graceful rites
And usages, whose due return invites
A stir of mind too natural to deceive;...
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Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part III. - XXXII - Rural Ceremony

William Wordsworth
Closing the sacred Book which long has fed
Our meditations, give we to a day
Of annual joy one tributary lay;
This day, when, forth by rustic music led,
The village Children, while the sky is red...
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Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part III. - XXXIV - Mutability

William Wordsworth
From low to high doth dissolution climb,
And sink from high to low, along a scale
Of awful notes, whose concord shall not fail;
A musical but melancholy chime,
Which they can hear who meddle not with crime,...
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Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part III. - XXXIX - Church To Be Erected

William Wordsworth
Be this the chosen site; the virgin sod,
Moistened from age to age by dewy eve,
Shall disappear, and grateful earth receive
The corner-stone from hands that build to God....
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Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part III. - XXXVI - Emigrant French Clergy

William Wordsworth
Even while I speak, the sacred roofs of France
Are shattered into dust; and self-exiled
From altars threatened, leveled, or defiled,
Wander the Ministers of God, as chance
Opens a way for life, or consonance...
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Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part III. - XXXVII - Congratulation

William Wordsworth
Thus all things lead to Charity secured
By them who blessed the soft and happy gale
That landward urged the great Deliverer's sail,
Till in the sunny bay his fleet was moored!...
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