Homecoming: A Shropshire Psalm

Christ of tangled hedgerows,

God of mud-slicked lanes,

Spirit of lichen guarding

ancient windswept stones,

Sanctifier of brownish heather

with stubborn, curling roots:

Enter every common gatepost

to ramble grace-wise with us into

these steep, sheep-covered hills.

Feed us with the sacrament of things

that are rough, and wild, and real.