An August Bank Holiday lark;
And the shops shut, the bleached
Established names on the sunblinds,
The farthings and sovereigns,
And dark-clothed children at play
Called after kings and queens,
The tin advertisements
For cocoa and twist, and the pubs
Wide open all day;
And the countryside not caring:
The place names all hazed over
With flowering grasses and fields
Shadowing Domesday lines
Under wheat's restless silence;
The differently-dressed servants
With tiny rooms in huge houses,
Domesday Book  was a record of property in England, produced in 1085 for tax purposes. This creates a sense of timelessness and continuity, the ongoing history of a country. The reader knows, however, that all this will change, as highlighted by the play on words — “Domesday” and “doom’s day”. 

MCMXIV re-transcribed