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THE KNIGHT'S TOMB by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHERE IS THE GRAVE OF SIR ARTHUR O'KELLYN
Last Line: HIS SOUL IS WITH THE SAINTS, I TRUST.
Subject(s): GRAVES; PEACE; TOMBS; TOMBSTONES;

WHERE is the grave of Sir Arthur O'Kellyn?
Where may the grave of that good man be? --
By the side of a spring, on the breast of Helvellyn,
Under the twigs of a young birch-tree!
The oak that in summer was sweet to hear,
And rustled its leaves in the fall of the year,
And whistled and roared in the winter alone,
Is gone, -- and the birch in its stead is grown. --
The knight's bones are dust,
And his good sword rust; --
His soul is with the saints, I trust.



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