Chaplaincy Fell Walk - UA Fanthorpe

For everyone who has been out for a walk, long or short, to a peak or a pub, on this wonderful day.....

CHAPLAINCY FELL WALK

There is always one out in front

With superior calves and experienced boots;

Always a final pair to be waited for,

Not saying much, pale, rather fat;

And the holy ones in the middle, making it

Their part to acclimatize the lonely and new,

Introducing cinquefoil, heron, a view;

And a stout one who giggles, uniting us

In wonder at her unfaltering chokes;

But alarming too. For what is she laughing at?

And remote presence of hills;

And the absence of you.

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