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BONAVENTURE (OLD CEMETERY AT SAVANNAH) by VIRGINIA CONNETT

First Line: PEACE, PEACE AND SILENCE
Last Line: LET THEM DREAM ON -- PEACE -- PEACE.
Subject(s): CEMETERIES; GRAVEYARDS;
Peace, peace and silence
Except where a mocker swings on a wild rose.
Scent of wax-petaled magnolias,
Grey headstones covered with lichens,
Their names and their dates all eroded.
Here small shining lizards dart through the grasses.
Blow gently O sea-winds through the long mosses
That trail like mourning veils from the branches
Of myrtle and live-oak. Be mute, O gulls,
Let them dream on -- peace -- peace.



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