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Brass plate (right-top) on bench,
with apt poem by Leo Marks.
Apologies for the out of focus inscription!
A number of attempts failed to produce better results.
See words below.

Photograph: by Graham W Griffiths

A Life That I Have

The life that I have
Is all that I have
And the life that I have
Is yours

The Love that I have
Of the life that I have
Is yours and yours and yours

A sleep I shall have
A rest I shall have
Yet death shall be but a pause

For the peace of my years
In the long green grass
Will be yours and yours and yours

Leo Marks

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