Crazy shoals?>> When it says>
"Starling are sweeping around" like crazy shoals
? he refers to what they eat dirt?
OK, all this is just my opinion
Shoals I see the birds moving together like a shoal of fish.
Plays it chime? "
Nobody cares to depend upon the ..." Chime to play is the alarm clock of the church?
Well the chime is the church bell, "nobody cares to depend upon the chime it plays" I read as "nobody depends/cares about the church anymore". This ties to the church bell "clinging on".
Congregations late again?>>
Would ironically faithful late again because of the prayer by train?I see the "congregation" in this case as the crowd waiting for the late train.
Flagpoles days? "
It's getting darker all the time ..." but what would be Flagpoles days?
Don't know what flagpole days are. You used to get flag days in Britain which were charity collection days, but never heard of flagpole days.
Then she read about the swing to the Right?
He is reading about something related to politics?Yeah, politics, apparently there was a swing to the right in the Dutch elections last week.