Ran out to see the startling sight
And make obeisance to the knight,
While floated through the liquid air,
And o'er the sunlit meadows fair,
The throbbing belfry's call to prayer.
At last, and after many a lurch
That shook Sir Herbert in his perch,
John Grigg drew up before the church;
Moreover not a minute late.
The villagers around the gate