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First Line: A little mound with chipped headstone
Last Line: With one white lily keeping watch and ward.
Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones


A LITTLE mound with chipped headstone,
The grass, ah me! uncut about the sward,
Summer by summer left alone
With one white lily keeping watch and ward.





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