Eastern Orthodox Churches

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    “The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,
    Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack,
    You may get a bland smile from these sages;
    But should it, by chance, be imported from France,
    Half-a-crown is stopped out of your wages!”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “He asked if I would sell my Christmas trees;
    My woods the young fir balsams like a place
    Where houses all are churches and have spires.
    I hadn’t thought of them as Christmas trees.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)