[My mother and step-mother sleep side by side in the village church-yard of my native home.]
HALLOWED GROUND.
Sister! this is a hallowed spot:
Here lowly bend with me,
Above their graves, where side by side
They sleep so peacefully.
Here lowly bend with me,
Above their graves, where side by side
They sleep so peacefully.
Memorials of departed worth
It has been mine to bring,
And lay upon a shrine of tears
A poet's offering.
It has been mine to bring,
And lay upon a shrine of tears
A poet's offering.
