Principles of the Flag
Anyone feeling a love of
The only political significance of using the flag is to express support for the good of the county and its people as each user understands this individually.
Everyone is free to interpret the use of the cross on the flag in his or her own way.
The gold of
and all the folk who stood or stand
to treasure in their minds and bless
this tree, this field, this bell-peal heard
far off, this song or flight of bird,
this fresh stream filled with watercress.
Then
and fortitude of hearts when tried,
the glow of cheeks at honest work
and honest play, the jests that tease
twixt friends completely at their ease,
the care for kin that none will shirk.
Amid these
a mark of even brighter hue,
untainted, incandescent, raw,
relentless like a silver wave
that tempts the earth-born soul to brave
some sea of mystery and awe.
Stephen Coombs 28 February 2008