The Source
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On the outer edge of Kemble
there’s a stone upon the green
where a spring becomes a trickle in a pond.
It seeps and then it flows
under bridges as a stream
towards the narrowboats of Lechlad...
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Categories:
oxfordshire, london, river,
Form: Rhyme
William Filby
...Born in Oxfordshire,
converted in his youth
to Church of JHS,
great noble man and little shy.
He was ordained a priest in France.
Commissioned by the Lord
to make disciples among his own peop...
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Categories:
oxfordshire, spiritual,
Form: Verse
The Pococke Cedar
...He
travelled
far and wide,
studied Arabic :
A famous orientalist :
An Oxford scholar and doctor of Divinity.
Here
was
a man,
the Rector
of Childrey parish,
the Reverend Edward Pococke.
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Categories:
oxfordshire, history, travel, tree,
Form: Fibonacci