• I like a church; I like a cowl;
    I love a prophet of the soul;
    And on my heart monastic aisles
    Fall like sweet strains, or pensive smiles:
    Yet not for all his faith can see
    Would I that cowlëd churchman be.
    Why should the vest on him allure,
    Which I could not on me endure?

    Not from a vain or shallow thought
    His awful Jove...

  •   I Like a church; I like a cowl;
    I love a prophet of the soul;
    And on my heart monastic aisles
    Fall like sweet strains or pensive smiles;
    Yet not for all his faith can see
    Would I that cowlèd churchman be.
    Why should the vest on him allure,
    Which I could not on me endure?

      Not from a vain or shallow thought
    His awful...