David Selzer | Poetry, Screen Plays, Stage Plays & Fiction » Burford http://www.davidselzer.com Writer of Poetry, Screen Plays, Stage Plays & Fiction Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:35:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 PARISH CHURCH, BURFORD http://www.davidselzer.com/2009/06/parish-church-burford/ http://www.davidselzer.com/2009/06/parish-church-burford/#comments Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:16:11 +0000 David Selzer http://www.davidselzer.com/?p=236 Hear them, silent on the leads,

watching their comrades,

the ensign, the corporal and the private

shot by firing squad

amongst the elms in the graveyard below.

Under the leaves in the summer,

Cromwell’s New Model Army

was practising democracy,

selecting all ranks for exemplary death -

the only leveller.

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