Эндрю Тэйлор – The Judgement of Strangers (страница 1)
ANDREW TAYLOR
THE JUDGEMENT OF STRANGERS
For Val and Bill
‘Cursed is he that perverteth the judgement of the stranger, the fatherless, and widow.’
from the Service of Commination, in the office
for Ash Wednesday in The Book of Common Prayer.
‘The Manor of Roth is not mentioned in the Domesday Book …’
Audrey Oliphant, The History of Roth
(Richmond, privately printed 1969), p. 1.
Then darkness descended; and whispers defiled The judgement of stranger, and widow, and child …
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With flames to the flesh, with brands to the burning, As incense to heav’n the soul is returning
from ‘The Judgement of Strangers’ by the Reverend
Francis St. J. Youlgreave in The Four Last Things
(Gasset & Lode, London, 1896)
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