No. 21, st. 7.
A Shropshire Lad (1896)
“With a book and a steeple, with a bell and a key
they would bind it forever, but they can't," said he.
"Oh, the book it will perish and the steeple will fall,
but the light will be shining at the end of it all.”
George Fox
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