---

Dinah Maria Mulock - In Memoriam
Work rating: Low

Obiit 1854.

HEAVEN rest thee! 
We shall go about today 
In our festal garlands gay; 
Whatsoever robes we wear 
Not a trace of black be there. 
Well, what matters? none is seen 
On thy daisy covering green, 
Or thy pure white pillow, hid 
Underneath a cofin lid. 
Heaven rest thee! 

Heaven take thee!-- 
Ay, heaven only. Sleeps beneath 
One who died a virgin death: 
Died so slowly, day by day, 
That it scarcely seemed decay, 
Till this lonely churchyard kind 
Opened,--and we left behind 
Nothing but a little dust;-- 
Heaven is pitiful and just: 
Heaven take thee! 
Heaven keep thee: 
Nevermore above the ground 
Be one relic of thee found: 
Lay the turf so smooth, we crave, 
None would guess it was a grave, 
Save for grass that greener grows, 
Or for wind that gentlier blows 
All the earth o`er, from this spot 
Where thou wert--and thou art not. 
Heaven keep thee!
Source
The script ran 0.001 seconds.