Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, UNDER THE GROUND, by HERMAN MELVILLE


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First Line: Between a garden and old tomb
Last Line: "yea, we the rose entomb."
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


Between a garden and old tomb
Disused, a foot-path threads the clover;
And there I met the gardener's boy
Bearing some dewy chaplets over.

I marvelled, for I just had passed
The charnel vault and shunned its gloom:
"Stay, whither wend you, laden thus;
Roses! you would not these inhume?"

"Yea, for against the bridal hour
My Master fain would keep their bloom;
A charm in the dank o'the vault there is,
Yea, we the rose entomb."





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