# Reedified explained — Poetry

> Chapter companion for Poetry by Ambrose Bierce.

## What happens

A brief poetic plea to the Lord of the tempest to refrain from destroying a church again, acknowledging His will in its doom but insisting He must rebuild it.

## Key lines

> Lord of the tempest, pray refrain From leveling this church again. Now in its doom, since so you’ve willed it, We acquiesce. But you’ll rebuild it.

The speaker asks the storm's master to stop destroying the church, accepts the destruction as divine will, but demands that the same power must restore it.

_The poem captures a tone of reluctant submission mixed with a demand for reparation._

## Links

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