St. Mary’s burying ground is unusual in that it extends from the carefully sculpted and landscaped grounds of the churchyard itself down through the unkempt wooded incline of Harlow Hill itself. If those interned within the orderly graves of the main churchyard lie still, calm and quiet, it is not so with the deceased inhabitants of the lower ground; for a power older by far than the church upon its crown inheres within the Hill’s neglected, rewilded slopes - a power from which flows a strange vitality; and if one listens very carefully to a sound easily mistaken for the whisper of leaves in the wind in that place, one may discern within that soft hiss and crackle words unspoken by any living voice.
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