A memorial of the parish and family of Hanmer in Flintshire out of the thirteenth into the nineteenth century: By John Lord Hanmer |
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THE CRUCIFIX. |
 | A memorial of the parish and family of Hanmer |  |
THE CRUCIFIX.
Caviller and captious, and too dull of soulInner or outer things to comprehend;
Whom that small wooden crucifix doth offend;
And water in its pine or beechen bowl;
By which, when bells for Ave Mary toll,
The peasant on these hills doth lowly bend;
Praying good angels will his house defend;
While o'er his sleeping head the planets roll.
Why railest at such ordinance? for thus
Did Augustine, and venerable Bede,
And saints whose names above doth Peter know.
Alien it may seem, so Time hath willed, to us;
But, when the emblem ye abjure, take heed,
Lest ye forget the inner meaning so.
| A memorial of the parish and family of Hanmer | |