The snow is pretty... but I'm glad I'm not in it. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
On 2/5/2012 11:02 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
> We had a fairly heavy fall of snow last night and it has prompted me to get
> out and take some photos:
>
> http://images.threeshoes.biz/photos/i-PZFfLVf/0/M/i-PZFfLVf-M.jpg
>
> The first 4 are of my street and my house; the orange cast is from the street
> lights as it was nearly 1100 when I decided to go out and see the scene.
>
> The following few shots are from a nearby hamlet called Cockayne Hatley, St
> John's Church and graveyard where we went for a walk in the snow. The church
> is quite a handsome one, especially outlined with snow, but the graveyard
> contains the gravestone of William Ernest Henley. I didn't really know of
> him until I first found the grave some years ago, but he has written some
> well-known poems, including "Invictus".
>
> The poem on his gravestone (also that of his daughter and of his wife) goes,
>
> “So be my passing
> My task accomplished and the long day done
> My wages taken, and in my heart
> Some late lark singing
> Let me be gathered in the quiet west
> The sundown splendid and serene, Death.”
>
> More of his poems can be found, http://theotherpages.org/poems/henley01.html
>
> The propellor-shaped slate is the memorial to the crew of a Liberator that
> crashed near the graveyard; a training accident after the end of the Second
> World War.
>
> All in all, it's a thought-provoking place, especially in the quiet of a
> snowy Sunday morning.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
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