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. …
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 …
A few lines from William Blane’s poem ‘The Atonement’: “What means a universal call if there be not enough for all? As if the Saviour passed some by while He for others’ sins did die, And that, though all are told to come, there’s but provision made for some; Or that in some mysterious way …
