Thanks for the tour of old haunts, Chris. That was indeed a heavy fall for
your area.
In yet another example of serendipitous discoveries brought about by
postings here, I discover that Henley is buried alongside his 5 year old
daughter, who provided the inspiration for Wendy (in JM Barrie's Peter Pan).
Which probably has no connection with the interestingly named
Shingay-cum-Wendy which is a bit further east.
Piers
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From: Chris Barker [mailto:ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 05 February 2012 16:29
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: [OM] OT: Snow, graves and a poet, re-sent
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/Landscapes/Winter/14684316_Bpdbrt
Four (starting with the orangey ones) 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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