Bakersfield Baptist Preaches Oliver Wendel Holmes

One of Swirlypine's favorite Bakersfield Baptists, Monteen Purdie, has submitted Swirlypine with the following excerpt from one her adored poems:

"The Chambered Nautiliaus"
by Oliver Wendel Holmes,

"From the deep caves of thought I hear
a voice that sings
Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-vaulted past,
Let each new temple,,,, nobler than the
last
Shut thee from heaven with a dome
more vast
Till thou at length art free,
Leaving thine out-grown shell by life's
unresting sea!"

It's the thought of striving to be better that I like and reaching
higher until we leave our shell of life by "life's unresting sea"
....Monteen

Thanks Monteen, and we wish you a blessed 90th birthday!