On a Grave at Grindelwald by Frederic William Henry Myers. Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. 1895. A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895

Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.

On a Grave at Grindelwald

Frederic William Henry Myers (1843–1901)


HERE let us leave him; for his shroud the snow,
For funeral lamps he has the planets seven,
For a great sign the icy stair shall go
Between the heights to heaven.

One moment stood he as the angels stand,	5
High in the stainless eminence of air;
The next, he was not, to his fatherland
Translated unaware.