Title and Author "let the trees be my cathedral, let the birds be my choir"

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Looking for the author and title of a poem that contains the lines, "let the trees be my cathedral, let the birds be my choir..." or some similar meaning. Remember it from High School and have been searching since...

-- (dh5x@virginia.edu), February 03, 2000

Answers

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I believe it's Dickenson -

"...With a bobolink for a chorister, And an orchard for a dome...."

-- Heath (hmhallman@desupernet.net), February 25, 2000.


maybe ... only maybe ... is it this one ? . Like two cathedral towers these stately pines

Uplift their fretted summits tipped with cones;

The arch beneath them is not built with stones,

Not Art but Nature traced these lovely lines,...

Enter! the pavement, carpeted with leaves,

Gives back a softened echo to thy tread!

Listen! the choir is singing; all the birds,

In leafy galleries beneath the eaves,

Are singing! listen, ere the sound be fled,

And learn there may be worship without words.

--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

-- ilza (ilza@pobox.com), February 04, 2000.


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