. Memories of the Tennysons . s where, and nailed to the oakennail-knotted door, and called by the inhabitants aknocker, what wars and rumours of wars would itnot suggest ? I know that I found myself lookingfor bits of Saxon hide round the nail fangs as Iwaited for the Sextons key. Inside the church was still the great mans pulpit, high uplifted above the Clerks seat, mademe involuntarily repeat: An eard um a-bumminawaay loike a buzzard clock ower my ead. Thewindows, with their relics of stained glass, spokevolumes. The lover of the daisy and the singer of itsaw in those windows, as a
. Memories of the Tennysons . s where, and nailed to the oakennail-knotted door, and called by the inhabitants aknocker, what wars and rumours of wars would itnot suggest ? I know that I found myself lookingfor bits of Saxon hide round the nail fangs as Iwaited for the Sextons key. Inside the church was still the great mans pulpit, high uplifted above the Clerks seat, mademe involuntarily repeat: An eard um a-bumminawaay loike a buzzard clock ower my ead. Thewindows, with their relics of stained glass, spokevolumes. The lover of the daisy and the singer of itsaw in those windows, as a boy, many marguerites inhonour of the churches patron saint ; and every timethe old bell tolled, it said and says, SaintlyMargaret, pray for us. There was an heraldic record too of the con-nection of the church with Crovvland Abbey in oneof the windows. I talked once with a peasant whotold me he had been the first to show the poetsmother this little record, but I think he was not wellread in Crowland Abbey lore, for he said :. K(J « K O >- CO « Q z SOMERSBY AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD. g You know I said to th ovvd doctors wife, hevyou seean howr taable-knives and forks i the chuchwinder, and be blaiimt if she had, so I shewed herthem. Naay, I didnt knaw and noo-one does knawhow they caame to be puttin i t owd winder, buttheers the knives and forks sewerly. Upon the chancel wall, beneath their pillaredfrieze and entablature, is a monument of one of theearly squires of Enderby who knew the Manor House,hard by, in all its glory. Andrew Gedney kneelswith his two sons reverently placed behind him,while Dorothie—her name is spelt differently intwo places in the inscription—his wife, who diedon the 7th of June, 1591, kneels opposite, withher two daughters in similar posture. One couldhardly believe that the poet-boys, with their fond-ness for rhythm, would not, many a time and oft,during the sermon have jangled to themselves thecouplet on that Gedney tomb Omne quod exoiitur terra f
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