WHEN THE GRASS GROWS OVER ME.
When the grass shall cover me, Head to foot where 1 am lying ; When not any wind that blows, Summer blooms nor Winter snows, Shall awake me to your sighing ; Close above me as you pass, You will say, “ How kind she was I” You will say, “ How true she was When the grass grows over me. When the grass shall cover me, Holden close to earth’s warm bosom ; While I laugh, or weep, or sing, Nevermore, for anything; You will find in blade and" blossom, Sweet small voices, odorous, Tender pleaders in my cause. That shall speak me as I was— When the grass grows over me. When the grass shall cover me, Ah, beloved, in my sorrow, Very patient I can wait— Knowing that, or soon or late, There will dawn a clearer morrow ; V» hen your heart will moan . “ Alas ' Now I now how true she was ; Now I know how dear she was”— When the grass grows over me.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 163, 23 April 1874, Page 2
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169WHEN THE GRASS GROWS OVER ME. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 163, 23 April 1874, Page 2
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