At The Unitarian Festival

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Title:     At The Unitarian Festival
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes [More Titles by Holmes]

MARCH 8, 1882

THE waves unbuild the wasting shore;
Where mountains towered the billows sweep,
Yet still their borrowed spoils restore,
And build new empires from the deep.
So while the floods of thought lay waste
The proud domain of priestly creeds,
Its heaven-appointed tides will haste
To plant new homes for human needs.
Be ours to mark with hearts unchilled
The change an outworn church deplores;
The legend sinks, but Faith shall build
A fairer throne on new-found shores.

[The end]
Oliver Wendell Holmes's poem: At The Unitarian Festival

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