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THE ROSE-COVERED GRAVE, SELECTION, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The morning arose, and its beauties were beaming
Last Line: To sweeten the scene of the rose-covered grave!
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Mothers & Daughters; Physical Disabilities; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


[The author, in passing through a beautiful churchyard in the county of
Norfolk, was particularly struck with the appearance of a recently covered
grave, which was surrounded by a profusion of roses. Afterwards, while
proceeding on his journey he casually overtook the gentleman whose lady had been
interred in the grave which had engaged his attention, and of whose sudden
departure he gave the following relation: He had an only daughter, who at the
period referred to was seriously indisposed, and who had been deploring that
circumstance in consequence of the inconvenience it occasioned in the family.
The lady, who at that time was in perfect health, endeavoured to console the
mind of her afflicted daughter by exclaiming, "Thank God, I am quite well, and
will alleviate your sufferings!" But within twenty minutes the affectionate
mother, who had thus spoken, was a corpse, and in the above-named grave her
remains were reposing.—AUTHOR'S NOTE.]

THE morning arose, and its beauties were beaming,
As they danced in her vision like snow-crested wave;
But alas! as such splendours were brilliantly gleaming,
She retired to repose in the rose-covered grave!

That hour was a season of gloomy decision,
For no merciful hand was uplifted to save;
Nor aught to illuminate the dark-clouded vision,
As she stood on the brink of her rose-covered grave!

She'd heard too, to add to the keen separation,
A long nurtured daughter despondently rave;
Nor could she but sigh for a dearer relation,
Who would weep as she went to her rose-covered grave!

Yet she fell 'mid emotions of exquisite sorrow,
So awfully did the grim monster behave;
And the sad apparatus was used on the morrow,
To prepare for her rest in the rose-covered grave!

And there, as the breezes are wantonly playing,
The beautiful buds will develop and wave;
And zephyrs will chance as their fragrance is straying
To sweeten the scene of the rose-covered grave!





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