| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917. |
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| 20. A New England Church |
| | | By Wilton Agnew Barrett |
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| THE WHITE church on the hill | |
| Looks over the little bay— | |
| A beautiful thing on the hill | |
| When the mist is gray; | |
| When the hill looks old, and the air turns cold | 5 |
| With the dying day! | |
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| The white church on the hill— | |
| A Greek in a Puritan town— | |
| Was built on the brow of the hill | |
| For John Wesley’s God’s renown, | 10 |
| And a conscience old set a steeple cold | |
| On its Grecian crown. | |
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| In a storm of faith on the hill | |
| Hands raised it over the bay. | |
| When the night is clear on the hill, | 15 |
| It stands up strong and gray; | |
| But its door is old, and the tower points cold | |
| To the Milky Way. | |
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| The white church on the hill | |
| Looks lonely over the town. | 20 |
| Dim to them under the hill | |
| Is its God’s renown, | |
| And its Bible old, and its creed grown cold, | |
| And the letters brown. | |
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