Inside St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague, a project 600 years in the building . . . six hundred years . . . |
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CathedralsThere will be no more cathedrals builtas St. Vitus was in Prague, over six-hundred years The toil begun and cornerstones laid by those who knew a roof would not be achieved in their lifetime, or those of grandsons These were men looking beyond mortality, these architects, these craftsmen of dreams Mankind no longer spends a lifetime on his knees, either to pray or to build and there’s sense in that But I stand in the shadow of this cathedral and watch the sunlight sift through a sieve of stained-glass, in stunned wonder at the sheer beauty of that labor No, they’ll not be built again as this one was and that’s all that can be said |
This poem is included in Jim Freeman's poetry collection BROKEN PIECES available here in print or as an e-Book in your favorite formats. |