Spires
Spires of Grace Church, For you the workers of the world Travailed with the mountains... Aborting their own dreams Till the dream of you arose-- Beautiful, swaddled in stone-- Scorning their hands.
Lola Ridge
Spires of Grace Church, For you the workers of the world Travailed with the mountains... Aborting their own dreams Till the dream of you arose-- Beautiful, swaddled in stone-- Scorning their hands.
Lola Ridge speaks directly to the spires of Grace Church, as if they were alive. She tells them that working people labored for them, struggling alongside the mountains themselves, and gave up their own hopes so this building could rise.
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