Channel Firing Poem Text

Channel Firing Poem Text

Channel Firing (Excerpt)

That night your great guns, unawares,

Shook all our coffins as we lay,

And broke the chancel window-squares,

We thought it was the Judgment-day

And sat upright. While drearisome

Arose the howl of wakened hounds:

The mouse let fall the altar-crumb,

The worms drew back into the mounds,

- Thomas Hardy

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