A. P. S.
AN IRREGULAR SONNET.
[" Aps," or "Apse."—An arched recess at the east end of the choir of an Anglo.Saxo a church .—aamberb's Dictionary.]
Musisa upon the letters of his name Whom death Lath lifted to a higher place, Methought, in its initials one might trace Some fancied symbol of his niche of fame.
He stood, indeed, within the Church's bound, He loved her purely, as some barefoot saint ; Yet cared he not, for ever, to be found In gorgeous choirs a stately ministrant.
Nor yet the western door his footsteps sought, Which leads to bustling ways of toil and thought, With modern views and faithless fancies fraught.
No; we shall find him 'neath the eastern dome, Facing the morn whence light and glory come, And gazing to the land which is their home. M. F.
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