| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| PASSING feet pause, as they pass, | |
| By this little slab of slate. | |
| People, if they go this way, | |
| By the linchen’d wicket gate, | |
| At each other look and say, | 5 |
| “Pity, pity! sad it was!” | |
| Here have fallen as many tears | |
| As the months in her short years. | |
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| Seven and ten brief sunny springs; | |
| Scarce so many winter snows: | 10 |
| Here the little speedwell keeps | |
| Watch beside the pale dog-rose; | |
| On this hillock, while she sleeps | |
| Underneath, the red-breast sings. | |
| Wedded on an April day! | 15 |
| In the Autumn laid away! | |
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