When they take you before magistrates and authorities.
Do not worry about how to defend yourselves .
What then are our priorities.
Can we take pride in ourselves.

Virtually all people conform to government decree.
My family certainly did after our first martyr.
But the Stonors remained true, paying week after week their fee.
I wish I could have that sort of courage for a starter.

I am at their house in Oxfordshire.
Pausing in the room where Edmund Campion stayed.
His heart with love afire.
Soon to be cruelly arraigned.

But now by this gentle Chiltern hill.
All is peace tranquil and still.

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Where does courage lie
Is it in conformity
Or in seeking truth

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See Luke 12: 8-12