Scenes of Christian England

Deus vult!

Amid the fields on either hand The sturdy English churches stand,

Four-square towers and stumpy spire’s guardians of the English Shires;

Their watch of centuries they keep o’er souls awake and souls asleep.

All England’s tale lies written here upon each tomb and knightly bier.

There, amid the leaning stones, lie humble folk and noble bones.

Their mortal clay lies in the sod, their souls have long returned to God.