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What is the Grave of Pride? Is it to lie ’Neath sculptured marble, where the night-winds sigh Through solemn arches, and ’mid pillars tall, The while the pallid moonbeams coldly fall On shrine, and urn, and “animated bust,” The vain memorials all of “dust to dust?” Is it to lie with hands uprear’d in prayer, As many a warrior rests in sculpture rare; His banner floating o’er the chisell’d stone, ’Neath which, long ages since, he laid him down, To fear no battle-cry, nor trumpet call, Till on his startled ear the peal shall fall, That from the storied tomb, or daisied sod, Death’s sleepers shall awake to meet their God? Then will it seek not, if in minster-pile, While music roll’d through each time-honour’d aisle, And choral hymnings swell the flood of sound, That rose and fell through all the vaults around; Or if beneath some village yew-tree’s shade, The child of earth to his long rest were laid. The marble tomb must yield its treasured trust, The grass-grown grave give up the sleeping dust.
What is the Grave of Pride? Is it to lie ’Neath sculptured marble, where the night-winds sigh Through solemn arches, and ’mid pillars tall, The while the pallid moonbeams coldly fall On shrine, and urn, and “animated bust,” The vain memorials all of “dust to dust?” Is it to lie with hands uprear’d in prayer, As many a warrior rests in sculpture rare; His banner floating o’er the chisell’d stone, ’Neath which, long ages since, he laid him down, To fear no battle-cry, nor trumpet call, Till on his startled ear the peal shall fall, That from the storied tomb, or daisied sod, Death’s sleepers shall awake to meet their God? Then will it seek not, if in minster-pile, While music roll’d through each time-honour’d aisle, And choral hymnings swell the flood of sound, That rose and fell through all the vaults around; Or if beneath some village yew-tree’s shade, The child of earth to his long rest were laid. The marble tomb must yield its treasured trust, The grass-grown grave give up the sleeping dust.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Mary Milner (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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Page 265 · printed citation: Mary Milner · subject: GRAVE—TOMB
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