Questions.... speculation

'Yet stop I did : in fact I often do
And always end much at a loss like this,
Wondering what to look for; wondering, too,
When churches fall completely out of use
What shall we turn them into, if we shall keep
A few cathedrals chronically on show,
Their parchment, plate and pyx in locked cases
And let the rest rent-free to rain and sheep.
Shall we avoid them as unlucky places?'

'O, after dark, will dubious women come
To make their children touch a particular stone;
Pick simples for a cancer; or on some
Advised night see walking a dead one?

'And what remains when disbelief is gone?'

'...I wonder who
Will be the last, the very last, to seek
This place for what it was; one of the crew
That tap and jot and know what rood-lofts were?
Some ruin-bibber, randy for antique,
Or Christmas-addict, counting on a whiff
Of gown-and-beads and organ-pipes and myrrh?
Or will he be my representative'

	Criado por eimearkelly3 mais de 11 anos atrás

Leaving Certificate English (Philip Larkin) Notas sobre Church Going, criado por eimearkelly3 em 14-08-2013.