An Incident
William Blake and Catherine Bourchier were married in the newly rebuilt Church of Battersea where the windows were beautifully painted to imitate real stained glass.
Pigments or crystal, what did it matter — when Jehovah sat on a cloud of curled fire over the door-way,
And angels with silver trumpets played Hosannas under the wooden groins of the peaked roof!
William and Catherine Blake left the painted windows behind in the newly rebuilt Church of Battersea,
But God and the angels went out with them;
And the angels played on their trumpets under the plaster ceiling of their lodging,
Morning, and evening, and morning, forty-five round years.
Has the paint faded in the windows of Battersea Church, I wonder?
Pigments or crystal, what did it matter — when Jehovah sat on a cloud of curled fire over the door-way,
And angels with silver trumpets played Hosannas under the wooden groins of the peaked roof!
William and Catherine Blake left the painted windows behind in the newly rebuilt Church of Battersea,
But God and the angels went out with them;
And the angels played on their trumpets under the plaster ceiling of their lodging,
Morning, and evening, and morning, forty-five round years.
Has the paint faded in the windows of Battersea Church, I wonder?
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