History

I went walking with Mummy today and we went to the ruin of Castle Semple Collegiate Church. It houses the graves of some of the Semple family who built the Church in 1504 ... I wonder what this place was like all that time ago!


"Why do the houses stand
When they that built them are gone;
When remaineth even of one
That lived there and loved and planned
Not a face, not an eye, not a hand,
Only here and there a bone?
Why do the houses stand
When they who built them are gone?
Oft in the moonlighted land
When the day is overblown,
With happy memorial moan
Sweet ghosts in a loving band
Roam through the houses that stand--
For the builders are not gone."

(George MacDonald - Why do the Houses Stand)