804 
EDELWEISS. 
and measures 16Jin. It represents a civilian, and closely 
resembles tlie brass of Benedict Medley at Whitnash, which 
see. There are matrices for a lady, two groups of children, 
and an inscription, the brass plates being lost. A full 
description of the brass will be found in the “Local Notes and 
Queries” column of the Birmingham Weekly Post , Feb. 27tli, 
1886. 
Dugdale mentions brasses at Withybrook to Richard 
Wright and wife, 1501, and to Christopher Wren and wife, 
1543. It is impossible to say whether this is part of one of 
these memorials. 
(To be continued.) 
EDELWEISS. 
Take, dear Lady, take these flowers 
Children born of sun and showers. 
Summer sun and winter snow 
Crushed the rock from which they grow; 
Strength of immemorial chalk 
Fed the fibres of their stalk; 
Lightning, hurricane and storm 
Shaped their pliancy of form; 
Gleam and gloom with varying sway 
Stained their petals ashen grey, 
WTiich, like loving hearts, enfold 
In their midst one spot of gold. 
Fearless head and steady foot 
Tracked the cradle of their root. 
Now a link in friendship’s chain 
From the mountain to the main. 
Nurslings of the central sea, 
Such as late I gave to thee, 
Lull the senses, charm the eye, 
Bloom and wither, breathe and die. 
These, by sterner process made, 
Slow engendered, slowly fade. 
And they bring where’er they fare 
Just a whiff of Alpine air. 
Lady, take these simple flowers, 
Emblem meet of sun and showers. 
Oscak Browning. 
Macmillan's Magazine , October, 1886. 
