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CHURCHYARD.
A glimmering churchyard, heap'd with countless graves
Like hosts of billows couch'd upon the deep,
Dawns into vision now. The dormant air
Is hush'd, and on that rich-leaf'd file of elms,
The choral wind hath sung itself to sleep.
Like hosts of billows couch'd upon the deep,
Dawns into vision now. The dormant air
Is hush'd, and on that rich-leaf'd file of elms,
The choral wind hath sung itself to sleep.
And here, where Meditation loves to dream
While noon a burning stillness breathes around,
From out yon mouldering cells let Fancy cite
A heart-wreck'd Being, whom the savage world
Deserted, and repentance wore to death.
While noon a burning stillness breathes around,
From out yon mouldering cells let Fancy cite
A heart-wreck'd Being, whom the savage world
Deserted, and repentance wore to death.
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