![Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part III. - XVII - Places Of Worship, By: William Wordsworth](https://i0.wp.com/poetrycatalog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Ecclesiastical-Sonnets-Part-III-XVII-Places-Of-Worship-By-William-Wordsworth.png?resize=750%2C420&ssl=1)
As star that shines dependent upon star
Is to the sky while we look up and love;
As to the deep fair ships which though they move
Seem fixed, to eyes that watch them from afar;
As to the sandy desert fountains are,
With palm-groves shaded at wide intervals,
Whose fruit around the sun-burnt Native falls
Of roving tired or desultory war
Such to this British Isle her Christian Fanes,
Each linked to each for kindred services;
Her Spires, her Steeple-towers with glittering vanes
Far-kenned, her Chapels lurking among trees,
Where a few villagers on bended knees
Find solace which a busy world disdains.