Clevedon Church.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2076, 3 June 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)

Clevedon Church.

“ They laid him by the passant shore, And in the hearing ol the wave." hj M-,,101-1 -, \ / V. Westward 1 watch the low blue hills of Males, Tut low sky Giver-gray ; The mibid channel, with the wandering sails, Moans through the winter day. There is no color, bat one a-hon light O.t shore and lonely tree; To-- little church upon the grassy height is gray as sky or sea But there hath he who won the sleepless love Slept through the?- fifty years; There is the grave that lia'h been wept above With more than mortal tears. in.d far fcGew I l.rar :i:; Severn sweep, An 1 a;l bis waves complain, As Mallam’s dirge through all the years must keep Its monotone of pain 1 Gr-n hill*, gray waters ! As a bird that flies, My heart flit* forth (tom these, Back to the winter rose of Northern skiee, Back to the Northern seas. And lo' the long waves of the ocean beat Beneath the Minster gray, Chapels and caverns worn of saintly feet And knees of them that pray. And I remember bow we twain were one, By the North ocean dim; I count the years gone over since the Son That lights me, lighted him ; And listen for the voice that, eave in sleep, Shall greet me not again ; Then, far b low, I bear the Severn sweep And ail bis waves complain. —Andrew Laing.