St: Mary's Burton Bradstock by
Douglas Northover
St. Mary's Church
Each stone in this old Church of ours
A story has to tell,
Of chapped hands, and aching backs,
Of monks who learned to spell,
That they might read of yonder babe
All in a manger born,
To yeomen, serfs, and masons there
Who heathen, mere forlorn:
Great joy they brought to shepherd boys,
And men who put to sea,
And left a monument to faith
For simple folk like me.
North wall boss
