I found this very moving and personal handwritten poem among some papers of my father, in a file along with other notes made by his Granny and great Granny. I assume it was written or copied out by one of them, or by someone else in the family. The transcription is given below the photographs. …
“Biblical Forgiveness”, Paul Whitehouse. click to listen to this very practical address, on Soundcloud.
GOD’S ACRE by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) I LIKE that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial-ground God’s-Acre! It is just; It consecrates each grave within its walls, And breathes a benison o’er the sleeping dust. God’s-Acre! Yes, that blessed name imparts Comfort to those who in the grave have sown The seed that they …
