church-works

Updated: May 29, 2025

A few sparrows occasionally try to raise a lively chirrup in their solitary tree perhaps, as taking a different view of worms from that entertained by humanity but they are flat and hoarse of voice, like the clerk, the organ, the bell, the clergyman, and all the rest of the Church-works when they are wound up for Sunday.

Charles Dickens - The Uncommercial Traveller