_Spires_.
And spires whose "silent finger points to Heaven."' ['Excursion,' Book vi.l.

19.] An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat countries with spire-steeples, which as they cannot be referred to any other object, point as with silent finger to the sky and stars, and sometimes, when they reflect the brazen light of a rich though rainy sunset, appear like a pyramid of flame burning heaven-ward.

See 'The Friend,' by S.T.Coleridge, No.

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