(Lord’s day). With Sir W. Pen to the parish church, where we are placed in the highest pew of all, where a stranger preached a dry and tedious long sermon. Dined at home. To church again in the afternoon with my wife; in the garden and on the leads at night, and so to supper and to bed.
it is church here
we are in the highest fall
a strange ache
dry and long
to gain a garden
at supper
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 26 August 1660.