Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MRS. DENISON; IN MEMORIAM, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES


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First Line: Tis right for her to sleep between
Last Line: And took, how much! With her away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The


'TIS right for her to sleep between
Some of those old Cathedral-walls,
And right too that her grave is green
With all the dew and rain that falls.

'Tis well the organ's solemn sighs
Should soar and sink around her rest,
And almost in her ear should rise
The prayers of those she loved the best.

'Tis also well this air is stirred
By Nature's voices loud and low,
By thunder and the chirping bird,
And grasses whispering as they grow.

For all her spirit's earthly course
Was as a lesson and a sign
How to o'errule the hard divorce
That parts things natural and divine.

Undaunted by the clouds of fear,
Undazzled by a happy day,
She made a Heaven about her here,
And took, how much! with her away.





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