| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| The Forgotten Grave |
| | | Austin Dobson (1840–1921) |
| | | | | A Sketch in a Cemetery |
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| OUT from the City’s dust and roar, | |
| You wandered through the open door; | |
| Paused at a plaything pail and spade | |
| Across a tiny hillock laid; | |
| Then noted on your dexter side | 5 |
| Some moneyed mourner’s “love or pride;” | |
| And so,—beyond a hawthorn-tree, | |
| Showering its rain of rosy bloom | |
| Alike on low and lofty tomb,— | |
| You came upon it—suddenly. | 10 |
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| How strange! The very grasses’ growth | |
| Around it seemed forlorn and loath; | |
| The very ivy seemed to turn | |
| Askance that wreathed the neighbor urn. | |
| The slab had sunk; the head declined, | 15 |
| And left the rails a wreck behind. | |
| No name; you traced a “6,”—a “7,”— | |
| Part of “affliction” and of “Heaven;” | |
| And then, in letters sharp and clear, | |
| You read—O Irony austere!— | 20 |
| “Tho’ lost to Sight, to Mem’ry dear.” | |
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