‘A Taste of Riches’

 

Rich and gleaming,

Wealth unseemly,

Wales from Grace is falling.

 

Saxons raiding,

Many slaying,

Britons now bewailing.

 

Modern cities

Awfully gaudy –

Leprous sores are spreading.

 

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Wise and holy Gildas,

Resting quietly in Rhuys,

The pure sea breezes blowing

Gently on the shores of Brittany

 . . .

The rest is at https://www.newenglishreview.org/articles/a-taste-of-riches/.

More about St Gildas is available here:

https://orthochristian.com/90338.html

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!