GRACE - Auto Psalm

 

Once I was a gas-guzzler, belching fumes:

Grace has converted me to solar power.

I wandered through side-roads and cul-de-sacs:

Now grace gives satellite navigation.

My windscreen was translucent and shattered:

Grace replaced it, and broadened my vision.

My brakes could not restrain my headlong course:

Discs, pads, and fluid – grace replaced them all.

For my overheating engines and gears

Grace has abundance of coolant.

Newbattle Abbey: The abbey became a stately home, and then a college for adults returning to education.  My father had a couple of weeks here when in the Non-combatant Corps.  The poet Edwin Muir was warden, and the poet George Mackay Brown a student.