On a Grave at Grindelwald. Frederic William Henry Myers (1843-1901). V. Death and Bereavement. Bliss Carman, et al., eds. 1904. The World's Best Poetry. III. Sorrow and Consolation

Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume III. Sorrow and Consolation. 1904.

V. Death and Bereavement

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.