Heart Songs

<h2><SPAN name="THE_GRAVE" id="THE_GRAVE"></SPAN>The Grave</h2> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><span class="letra">O</span> THE grave is a quiet place, my dear,<br/></span> <span class="i2">So still and so quiet by night and by day,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Reached by no sound either joyous or drear,<br/></span> <span class="i2">But keeping its silence alway, alway.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">O the grave is a restful place, my dear,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Unvext by the weightiest loss or gain,<br/></span> <span class="i0">All the undone work of the speeding year<br/></span> <span class="i2">May beat at its portals in vain, in vain.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">O the grave is a tender place, my dear,<br/></span> <span class="i2">The Love immortal, the faith, the trust,<br/></span> <span class="i0">The grace and the beauty, lie buried there,<br/></span> <span class="i2">So pure and so white in a robe of dust.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">O the grave is a home-like place, my dear,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Where we all do gather when day is done,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Where the earth mother folds us close and near,<br/></span> <span class="i2">And the latch-string waits for the laggard one.<br/></span></div> </div></div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_219" id="page_219"></SPAN>{219}</span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />