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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365906" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Church of Wenslow Haze</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sea that batters the eastern coast<br>Has often subdued the land, <br>Five hundred years have seen the retreat<br>Of a mile of cliffs and sand, <br>When tides are low in the summertime<br>From beneath the distant swell, <br>The villagers lying abed at night<br>Hear the tolling of a bell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The bell resounds up the village street<br>And rattles the cobblestones, <br>As the villagers close the shutters tight<br>And lock the doors of their homes, <br>They hear the thump of a wooden stump<br>As it echoes along the street, <br>The wooden leg of the mate, John Clegg<br>From Drake's Armada Fleet! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The thump is steady and purposeful<br>As it heads towards the sea, <br>Where the bell still rings for matins<br>As in 1563, <br>When priests were burned for popery<br>In the England of those days, <br>They used the little singing cakes<br>In the Church of Wenslow Haze! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">John Clegg was a surly protestant<br>In the service of the Queen, <br>So the use of the cakes for massing bread -<br>He thought it was quite obscene! <br>The vicar had leant to the Roman Church, <br>The Reverend Walter Raise, <br>And Clegg had stood and harangued him there<br>In the Church of Wenslow Haze.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘You'll bring your Popish habits here<br>At the risk of mortal pain, <br>I fought for the Queen Elizabeth<br>To see off the King of Spain, <br>If you don't revert to the massing bread<br>And the Book of Common Prayer, <br>I'll see to the piling of faggots<br>When they burn you in the square! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But Walter Raise would never be stayed<br>By the threats of an ignorant tar, <br>He said: ‘I only answer to God<br>For the what and the where we are! <br>The form is not as important as<br>The salving of the soul, <br>You'd better look to your own before<br>The Devil takes you all! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But Clegg had waited for matins, he<br>Returned with a burning brand, <br>Set fire to the ancient tapestries<br>The pews and the altar stand, <br>He raised his cutlass and brought it down<br>On the Romish vicar's head, <br>And he cursed the Church of Wenslow Haze<br>As the vicar lay there, dead! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sea rose up in a sudden storm<br>And it swept across the land, <br>Engulfed the Church of Wenslow Haze<br>As if raised by God's own hand, <br>The land had tilted beneath the sea<br>And the church, it settled deep, <br>With the bodies of Clegg and Walter Raise<br>And the bell-tower, and the keep! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So now when the tide repents and drops<br>To a fathom, over the bell, <br>The toll rings out from the surly deep<br>Like a call to the fiends from hell, <br>And a stump sounds over the cobblestones<br>As Clegg, for his soul's sake pays, <br>He carries a burning fire brand<br>To the Church of Wenslow Haze.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">29 July,2012</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Lewis+Paget">David Lewis Paget</a><div class=q>
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Has often subdued the land, 
Five hundred years have seen the retreat
Of a mile of cliffs and sand, 
When tides are low in the summertime
From beneath the distant swell, 
The villagers lying abed at night
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