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DUST TO DUST by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN

First Line: DUST TO DUST!' CRIES OUT AN ANCIENT CHURCH
Last Line: AND LO! FROM EVERY TOMB THE STONE IS ROLLED.
Subject(s): CEMETERIES; DEATH; DUST; FUNERALS; GRAVES; GRAVEYARDS; DEAD, THE; BURIALS; TOMBS; TOMBSTONES;
"DUST to dust!" cries out an ancient church,
Above the lonely graves of all her dead;
Better the silent lip, could no sweet word
Of tender hope and pity there be said.

"Earth to earth, and ashes unto ashes!"
Not thus to trembling hearts spake Christ of old.
"Thy dead shall live," breathes from the Sacred Page,
And lo! from every tomb the stone is rolled.



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