Obiit 1854. <br /> <br />HEAVEN rest thee! <br />We shall go about today <br />In our festal garlands gay; <br />Whatsoever robes we wear <br />Not a trace of black be there. <br />Well, what matters? none is seen <br />On thy daisy covering green, <br />Or thy pure white pillow, hid <br />Underneath a cofin lid. <br />Heaven rest thee! <br /> <br />Heaven take thee!-- <br />Ay, heaven only. Sleeps beneath <br />One who died a virgin death: <br />Died so slowly, day by day, <br />That it scarcely seemed decay, <br />Till this lonely churchyard kind <br />Opened,--and we left behind <br />Nothing but a little dust;-- <br />Heaven is pitiful and just: <br />Heaven take thee! <br />Heaven keep thee: <br />Nevermore above the ground <br />Be one relic of thee found: <br />Lay the turf so smooth, we crave, <br />None would guess it was a grave, <br />Save for grass that greener grows, <br />Or for wind that gentlier blows <br />All the earth o'er, from this spot <br />Where thou wert--and thou art not. <br />Heaven keep thee!<br /><br />Dinah Maria Mulock Craik<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/in-memoriam-18/
