A Prayer for Peace
I wasn’t aware that my great-grandad, Sardius Hancock, was quite a character. He was a poet, politician and chess player. This text is from The New Statesman in 2014:
When Ralph and Wilf were killed in France, Sardius paid to have a stained glass window installed in their memory in Somers Park Methodist Church in Malvern. When I was clearing my late mum’s house, I came across some papers from Sardius, one of which was a poem he wrote in 1930 called ‘A Prayer for Peace.’ Reading it, you realise it could have been written yesterday for today’s world. I was so affected by the poem that I needed to set it to music.