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The Chapel

Translation of Walter William Skeat

THERE aloft the chapel standeth,

Peering down the valley still;

There beneath, by fount and meadow,

Rings the shepherd’s carol shrill.

Sadly booms the bell’s slow knelling,

Solemn sounds the last lament;

Hushed are all the boy’s loud carols,

Still he stands with ears attent.

There aloft are borne to burial

They who filled the vale with glee;

There aloft, O youthful shepherd,

Men shall chant the dirge for thee!