| Andrew Macphail, comp. The Book of Sorrow. 1916. | | | XXXIV. Compensation
A Place of Burial in the South of Scotland | | By William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | | PART fenced by man, part by a ragged steep | |
| That curbs a foaming brook, a Grave-yard lies; | |
| The hare’s best couching-place for fearless sleep; | |
| Which moonlit elves, far seen by credulous eyes, | |
| Enter in dance. Of church, or sabbath ties, | 5 |
| No vestige now remains; yet thither creep | |
| Bereft Ones, and in lowly anguish weep | |
| Their prayers out to the wind and naked skies. | |
| Proud tomb is none; but rudely-sculptured knights, | |
| By humble choice of plain old times, are seen | 10 |
| Level with earth, among the hillocks green: | |
| Union not sad, when sunny daybreak smites | |
| The spangled turf, and neighbouring thickets ring | |
| With jubilate from the choirs of spring! | | | | |
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