By man forgotten, Nature remembers, with her fitful tears. The wooden slabs lose name and date with years, And crumble, rotten. The Padre there, One Saint's day, from an evening rite returning, Set for each unknown soul a candle burning, With muttered prayer. Glow-worms, they shone— Strange, spectral-gleaming through the lonely dark. Whose nameless dust did each faint glimmer mark— Skull, crumbling bone? Ah, the Dead knew! The grateful Dead, far-called from voids of space, Each by the tiny spark that gave him grace, Watched, the night through. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SCHOOLBOYS IN WINTER by JOHN CLARE HARLEM SHADOWS by CLAUDE MCKAY NOCTURNE by JOHN VAN ALSTYN WEAVER SONNET TO THE KYNGE by THEODORE AGRIPPA D' AUBIGNE MAGIC TOURS by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN FRAGMENT by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN STATUETTE by DOLORES DOROTHE BOST |