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BONAVENTURE (OLD CEMETERY AT SAVANNAH), by                    
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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