An Easter Rhyme by Rev R.L. Gales April 1914

The Peasant Arts journal The Vineyard provides a number of Easter article choices.  Following on from my previous post from the Rev. R. L. Gales in April 1911, it is interesting to read his poem 3 years later that refers to the symbolism of the owl.

from Arbor Vitae, Godfrey Blount, 1899

"An Owl sat in an ivy bush,

ALamb hung on a tree,

For that ill fowl, the ancient Owl,

A goodly sight to see,

Whose eyes might mark in that fell dark

What deathly things might be.

On the third morn he Lamb was freed,

He stood all bright in a green mead,

In Daylight before day;

The ivy bush was cleft in twain,

Was riven and rent with might and main,

And the Owl fled away."

from Arbor Vitae, ibid.