Stones from The Quarry or, Moods of Mind. By Henry Browne [i.e. Henry Ellison] |
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ON A SEAT BY AN ANCIENT TOMB.
Seat thyself, passer-by, and while brief restThy limbs, brief rest give to thy busy mind.
Repay the kindness of the dead in kind—
From that unending pause, as to attest
Their sympathy still with the living, lest
Their very names should pass away, consigned
To dusty death, they bid thee rest, and find
Time for a thought of passing interest
In them. Read then their epitaph, and go
Thy ways not thankless. So tho' dead they speak!
The dead in many ways are with us; show
The paths we else should miss or toilsome seek.
Their spirits work with us; within us glow
Their thoughts: thus Past and Present know no break.
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