A thousand years
Those stones have stood
The Abbey’s graceful columns
Witness to all of England’s life
Its triumphs and its sorrows
Now they stand
To greet the Queen
Silent still their watching
While ceremony and solemn chant
Through the air is wafting
Strength of purpose
In their building
Made for God’s own glory
That glory as Irenaeus tells
Is a human life’s full story
Brian Fahy
19 September 2022
+ Saint Irenaeus teaches us that the glory of God is not a building or a teaching, but the human being fully alive.
Erris Poetry 