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Come unto the churchyard near: Where the gentle, whispering breeze Softly rustleth through the trees; Where the moonbeam pure and white, Falls in floods of cloudless light, Bathing many a turfy heap Where the lowlier slumberers sleep; And the graceful willow waves, Banner-like, o’er nameless graves: Here hath prayer arisen like dew,— Here the earth is holy, too, Lightly press each grassy mound: Surely this is hallowed ground.
Come unto the churchyard near: Where the gentle, whispering breeze Softly rustleth through the trees; Where the moonbeam pure and white, Falls in floods of cloudless light, Bathing many a turfy heap Where the lowlier slumberers sleep; And the graceful willow waves, Banner-like, o’er nameless graves: Here hath prayer arisen like dew,— Here the earth is holy, too, Lightly press each grassy mound: Surely this is hallowed ground.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- M. A. Browne (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
In print by 1888: recorded in A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 266 · printed citation: M. A. Browne · subject: GRAVE—TOMB
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