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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SUNSHINE: A THOUGHT, by ELIZA COOK Poet's Biography
First Line: The sweet and merry sunshine makes the very churchyard fair
Last Line: Though it plays upon a grave-stone through the gloomy cypress tree.
Subject(s): Bones; Churchyards; Coffins; Thought; Thinking
First Line: The sweet and merry sunshine makes the very churchyard fair
Last Line: Though it plays upon a grave-stone through the gloomy cypress tree.
Subject(s): Bones; Churchyards; Coffins; Thought; Thinking
THE sweet and merry sunshine makes the very churchyard fair;
We half forget the yellow bones, while yellow flowers are there;
And while the summer beams are thrown upon the osiered heap,
We tread with lingering footsteps where our "rude forefathers sleep."
The hemlock does not seem so rank—the willow is not dull;
The rich flood lights the coffin nail and burnishes the skull.
Oh! the sweet and merry sunshine is a pleasant thing to see,
Though it plays upon a grave-stone through the gloomy cypress tree.
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