Complete poetical works of John Hay / [by John Hay] ; with an introd. by Clarence L. Hay [electronic text]
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Complete poetical works of John Hay / [by John Hay] ; with an introd. by Clarence L. Hay [electronic text]
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Hay, John, 1838-1905, Hay, Clarence Leonard
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Boston, Mass. ; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company
1917
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"Complete poetical works of John Hay / [by John Hay] ; with an introd. by Clarence L. Hay [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAE0027.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2024.
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IN A GRAVEYARD
IN the dewy depths of the graveyard I lie in the tangled grass, And watch, in the sea of azure, The white cloud-islands pass.
The birds in the rustling branches Sing gayly overhead; Gray stones like sentinel spectres Are guarding the silent dead.
The early flowers sleep shaded In the cool green noonday glooms; The broken light falls shuddering On the cold white face of the tombs.
Without, the world is smiling In the infinite love of God, But the sunlight fails and falters When it falls on the churchyard sod.
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On me the joyous rapture Of a heart's first love is shed, But it falls on my heart as coldly As sunlight on the dead.
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