The Temple and the Tower: A Poem on the Granite City Fire (Classic Reprint) Paperback -

These lines, thrown out in a fit of poetic sadness, seek to picture, as near as possible, what I cannot help thinking was the most graphic display of fire possibly in this world having for the theatre of its terrible manifestation so confined an area as a churchyard, and contracted to one huge focus in the temple, stamps it as unique.

I have often felt that a total eclipse of sound, so to speak, was as insupportably sad as a total eclipse of light and from the keynote of this feeling came the opening verses. To me the Sabbath morning came on funeral wing, and the noon, shorn of its bells.

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