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Yet, if it be that for our sin Our angel's term of watch is o'er, With proper prayer, true faith must win The guardian watcher back once more I Faith, brethren of the Church, and prayer-- In blood and sackcloth, if it need; And still our spire shall rise in air, Our temple, though our people bleed!

[1] St.. Michael's Church was opened for divine worship, February 1, 1761

[2] "The height of this steeple makes it the principal land-mark for the pilots."--Dalcjio (in 1819).

Ode--"Shell the Old City! Shell!"

By W. Gilmore Simms.