Up on Church Hill
I think of my love
& Tennyson, long gone
Up on Church Hill
Up on Church Hill
I look out at Steep Holm
and then at Clevedon pier
Up on Church hill
Up on Church Hill
the last swallows are soaring,
last summer days calling
Up on Church Hill
Up on Church Hill
by the poets’ walk
I sit as it gets dark
Up on Church Hill
Up on Church Hill
I shall leave my heart
& then depart
Old Church Hill
N.B. This turned out to be a song instead of / as well as a poem. I just set it to music. So think of this as song lyrics too if you wish. Clevedon is a small seaside town on the Bristol Channel in South West England which is known for the fact that the poets Tennyson, Coleridge & William Makepeace Thackeray ( more known for his novel ' Vanity Fair') visited it in their lifetimes. Church Hill is so named because it has a church there, nestled in a small valley/ indentation in the hill & has lovely views.
