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'

	Created by eimearkelly3 about 12 years ago

Leaving Certificate English (Philip Larkin) Note on Church Going, created by eimearkelly3 on 14/08/2013.