Explore "Hymn of the Moravian Nuns of Bethlehem" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
At the Consecration of Pulaski's Banner.
When the dying flame of day / Through the chancel shot its ray, / Far the glimmering tapers shed / Faint light on the cowled head; / And the censer burning swung, / Where, before the altar, hung / The crimson banner, that with prayer / Had been consecrated there. / And the nuns' sweet hymn was heard the while, / Sung low, in the dim, mysterious aisle.