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A SHORT HISTORY OF
GREAT DUNMOW PARISH CHURCH
A DEDICATION
A Roman road, tall elms, and ancient fane, Woodland and mead studded with Tudor towers, God’s acre, gladdened by unbidden flowers
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That bloom and yearly die to live again; Peace, luminous as sunshine after rain, -
W, J. HOUSE, D.D. Vicar of Dunmow and Rural Dean,
An old world peace , careless of days and hours, Sure of the blue beyond the sky that lowers, Certain that neither Love nor Faith is vain.-
AND Oh! Ye that rest beyond yon hallowed sod,
FREDK ROBUS, Churchwarden 1919-1927 (and printer) (Author of ‘Lionel Lukin’; ‘Dunmow and its Charters’ and ‘Dunmow Parish Registers’)
Yet urge with memory’s strength our feet to move In childlike steps along the path ye trod: Know that we hope and strive e’en as ye strove, Know that we seek as ye our way to God, Know that we live as ye by Faith and Love. H. WICKHAM STEED.