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HUNTINGTON HOUSE Each Sunday morning out you drove to Parson Arms's church,

As straight as if Time had not left you somehow in the lurch;

And so lived where your grandfather and father lived and died,

Until you sought them one by one—and last of all stayed pride.

You knew that with them you would lie in that old burial ground

Wherethrough the name of Huntington on vault and stone is found,

Where Norwichtown's first infant male, in sixteen-sixty born,

Grave Christopher, still rests beneath his cherub carved forlorn.

There sleep your warlike ancestors, their feet toward the east,

And thus shall face the Judgment Throne when Gabriel's blast hath ceased.

The frost of years may heave the tomb whereto you were consigned,

And school-boys peer atween the cracks, but you—will never mind.

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