“Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand;
Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!”
Edna St. Vincent Millay book A Few Figs from Thistles
Source: "Second Fig" from A Few Figs from Thistles (1920)
“Fair stands the ancient Rectory,
The Rectory of Croft,
The sun shines bright upon it,
The breezes whisper soft.
From all the house and garden
Its inhabitants come forth,
And muster in the road without,
And pace in twos and threes about,
The children of the North.”
Lays of Sorrow No. 2, opening lines
The Rectory Umbrella
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Shining as the sun, untouched of care.”
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