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SOME say the spot is banned; that the pillar Cross-and-Hand / Attests to a deed of hell; / But of else than of bale is the mystic tale / That ancient Vale-folk tell.
Ere Cernel's Abbey ceased hereabout there dwelt a priest, / (In later life sub-prior / Of the brotherhood there, whose bones are now bare / In the field that was Cernel choir).