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First Line: Out from the city's dust and roar
Last Line: Tho' lost to sight, to mem'ry dear.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones


OUT from the City's dust and roar,
You wandered through the open door;
Paused at a plaything pail and spade
Across a tiny hillock laid;
Then noted on your dexter side
Some moneyed mourner's 'love or pride,'
And so, -- beyond a hawthorn-tree,
Showering its rain of rosy bloom
Alike on low and lofty tomb, --
You came upon it -- suddenly.

How strange! The very grasses' growth
Around it seemed 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 'Heaven'
And then, in letters sharp and clear,
You read -- O Irony austere! --
'Tho' lost to Sight, to Mem'ry dear.'





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