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I saw two women weeping by the tomb Of one new buried, in a fair green place, Bower’d with shrubs; the eye retained no trace Of aught that day performed; but the faint gloom Of dying day was spread upon the sky. The moon was broad and bright above the wood; The distance sounded of a multitude, Music, and shout, and mingled revelry. At length came gleaming through the thicket-shade Helmet and casque, and a steel-armed band Watched round the sepulchre in solemn stand. The night-word passed, from man to man convey’d; And I could see those women rise and go Under the dark trees, moving sad and slow.
I saw two women weeping by the tomb Of one new buried, in a fair green place, Bower’d with shrubs; the eye retained no trace Of aught that day performed; but the faint gloom Of dying day was spread upon the sky. The moon was broad and bright above the wood; The distance sounded of a multitude, Music, and shout, and mingled revelry. At length came gleaming through the thicket-shade Helmet and casque, and a steel-armed band Watched round the sepulchre in solemn stand. The night-word passed, from man to man convey’d; And I could see those women rise and go Under the dark trees, moving sad and slow.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Henry Alford (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 532 · printed citation: Henry Alford · subject: SEPULCHRE—TOMB
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