| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882). Complete Poetical Works. 1893. | | | | Ultima Thule | Sonnets.
The Burial of the Poet |
| | Richard Henry Dana
IN the old churchyard of his native town, | |
| And in the ancestral tomb beside the wall, | |
| We laid him in the sleep that comes to all, | |
| And left him to his rest and his renown. | |
| The snow was falling, as if Heaven dropped down | 5 |
| White flowers of Paradise to strew his pall;— | |
| The dead around him seemed to wake, and call | |
| His name, as worthy of so white a crown. | |
| And now the moon is shining on the scene, | |
| And the broad sheet of snow is written o’er | 10 |
| With shadows cruciform of leafless trees, | |
| As once the winding-sheet of Saladin | |
| With chapters of the Koran; but, ah! more | |
| Mysterious and triumphant signs are these. | | | | |
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