THE FORGOTTEN GRAVE.
BY AUSTIN DOBSOJI.
Out from the city's dust and roar. You wandered through the »pen door ; Pauied at a plaything pail and spade Across a tiny hillock laid ; Then noted on your dexter side Some moneyed mourner'H " love or pride, And so,— beyond a hawthorn tree, Showering its rain of rosy bloom 1 Alike on low and lofty tomb,— You came upon it — suddenly. How strange ! The very grasses' mrowth Around it seems forlorn and loath ; The very ivy seemed to turn Askance that wreathed the neighbour urn. The slab had sunk ; the head declined, And left the rails a wreck behind. No name ; you traced a " 6,"— a " 7,"— Part of " affliction," and of " Hearon ;" And then, in letters sharp and clear, You read— Oh Irony austere— ° Tho 1 loit to Sight, to Mem'ry dear."
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2164, 22 May 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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139THE FORGOTTEN GRAVE. Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2164, 22 May 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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