| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Churchyard |
| | | | There lay the warrior and the son of song, |
| And therein silence till the judgment day |
| The orator, whose all-persuading tongue |
| Had movd the nations with resistless sway. |
Mrs. Norton. | 1 |
| | Strange things, the neighbours say, have happend there: |
| Wild shrieks have issued from the hollow tombs, |
| Dead men have come again, and walkd about; |
| And the great bell has tolld unrung, untouchd. |
| Such tales their cheer at wake or gossiping, |
| When it draws near to witching time of night. |
Blair. | 2 |
| | Yet there are graves, whose rudely shapen sod |
| Bears the fresh footprints where the sexton trod; |
| Graves where the verdure has not dard to shoot, |
| Where the chance wildflower has not fixd its root, |
| Whose slumbering tenants, dead without a name, |
| The eternal record shall at length proclaim |
| Pure as the holiest in the long array |
| Of hooded, mitred, or tiarad clay! |
O. W. Holmes. | 3 |
| | The solitary, silent, solemn scene, |
| Where Cæsars, heroes, peasants, hermits lie, |
| Blended in dust together; where the slave |
| Rests from his labors; where th insulting proud |
| Resigns his power, the miser drops his hoard, |
| Where human folly sleeps. |
Dyer. | 4 | | |
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