Pen and pencil pictures from the poets . PEN AND PENCIL PICTURES FROM THE POETS. I 13 A Churchyard Scene. /? V OW sweet and solemn, all alone, With reverend steps, from stone to stone,In a small village churchyard lying,Oer intervenmg flowers to move !And as we read the names unknownOf young and old to judgment gone,And hear in the calm air aboveTime onwards softly flying,To meditate, in Christian love,Upon the dead and dying !Across the silence seem to goWith dream-like motion, wavering, slow,And shrouded in their folds of friends we loved, long, long ago !Gliding across the

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Pen and pencil pictures from the poets . PEN AND PENCIL PICTURES FROM THE POETS. I 13 A Churchyard Scene. /? V OW sweet and solemn, all alone, With reverend steps, from stone to stone,In a small village churchyard lying,Oer intervenmg flowers to move !And as we read the names unknownOf young and old to judgment gone,And hear in the calm air aboveTime onwards softly flying,To meditate, in Christian love,Upon the dead and dying !Across the silence seem to goWith dream-like motion, wavering, slow,And shrouded in their folds of friends we loved, long, long ago !Gliding across the sad retreat,How beautiful their phantom feet!What tenderness is in their eyes,Turned where the poor survivor liesMid monitory sanctities !What years of vanished joy are fannedFrom one uplifting of that hand,In its white stillness ! when the shadeDoth glimmeringly in sunshine fadeFrom our embrace, how dim appearsThis worlds life through a mist of tears !Vain hopes ! blind sorrows ! needless fears !Such is the scene around me now :A little churchyard on the brow 114 PEN AND PENCIL PICTURES FROM THE POETS. Of a gree

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